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Year: 2000 Publisher: Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal,
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Depuis sept siècles, la Chine exerce une étonnante fascination sur l'Occident. Dès les premiers contacts, elle est apparue comme un objet de désir plutôt que de connaissance et, très vite, elle est devenue une construction imaginaire et un enjeu des débats internes de l'Occident. C'est l'histoire de la Chine comme l'ont comprise et imaginée les Occidentaux que retrace ici le grand sinologue américain Jonathan D. Spence. Pour rendre compte de cette fascination, il fait appel aux récits des voyageurs, aux systèmes des philosophes, aux rapports des diplomates, aux témoignages des missionnaires et, surtout, aux œuvres des grands écrivains qui, de Mendes Pinto à Italo Calvino, en passant par Voltaire, Segalen et Brecht, ont voulu communiquer leur vision de la Chine. Grossiers ou subtils, généreux ou empreints de préjugés, sobres ou avides d'exotisme, ces documents nous en apprennent finalement autant sur l'Occident que sur la Chine.
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Year: 1876 Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers,
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"At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Oxford in 1860, I read an abstract of the physiological argument contained in this work respecting the mental progress of Europe, reserving the historical evidence for subsequent publication. This work contains that evidence. It is intended as the completion of my treatise on Human Physiology, in which man was considered as an individual. In this he is considered in his social relation. But the reader will also find, I think, that it is a history of the progress of ideas and opinions from a point of view heretofore almost entirely neglected. There are two methods of dealing with philosophical questions--the literary and the scientific. Many things which in a purely literary treatment of the subject remain in the background, spontaneously assume a more striking position when their scientific relations are considered. It is the latter method that I have used. Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth. The life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation. These propositions it is the special object of this book to demonstrate. No one, I believe, has hitherto undertaken the labour of arranging the evidence offered by the intellectual history of Europe in accordance with physiological principles, so as to illustrate the orderly progress of civilization, or collected the facts furnished by other branches of science with a view of enabling us to recognize clearly the conditions under which that progress takes place. This philosophical deficiency I have endeavoured in the following pages to supply. Seen thus through the medium of physiology, history presents a new aspect to us. We gain a more just and thorough appreciation of the thoughts and motives of men in successive ages of the world"--
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,
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The present book addresses a wide range of problems concerning the history of Eastern Slavic culture in its interaction with cultural models of Western Europe. This collective work is the final result of the French-Italian conference "Fratture e integrazioni tra Russia, mondo slavo orientale e Occidente. Storia e civiltà letteraria dal Medioevo all'epoca contemporanea" (University of Florence, April 16-17, 2015): the complexity of cultural relations between Russia, the Slavic East and the European West is analysed by enhancing the variety of points of view and by using different methodological approaches and perspectives provided by different fields of study. Here, new materials and new analytical methods are presented, useful for studying the complex interactions between the Western cultural tradition and the Eastern Slavic one from the Middle Ages to the present day. The "fractures" and "integrations" are identified through critical reading or rereading of texts, works and authors who have taken part in the construction and development of cultural relations between the different European areas.
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Wattwil, Switzerland : Toggenburger Verlag,
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden [The Netherlands] : Leiden University Press,
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This book brings together six expert contributors to examine the production and use of medieval manuscripts containing classical Latin texts. The contributors consider everything from the physical qualities of the manuscripts to what we can learn about how their readers used and interacted with them; ultimately, they also make a case for the value of studying not just specific classical manuscripts, but distinct groups of them, showing how such a collective approach can add to our understanding of how they functioned in medieval society.
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Year: 2016 Publisher: London : UCL Press,
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Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town's residents, exploring what it means to be an individual on social media. Why do people from this region conform on platforms that are designed for personal expression? Nicolescu argues that social media use in this region of the world is related to how people want to portray themselves. He pays special attention to the ability of users to craft their appearance in relation to collective ideals, values and social positions, and how this feature of social media has, for the residents of the town, become a moral obligation: they are expected to be willing to adapt their appearance to suit their different audiences at the same time, which is crucial in a town where religion and family are at the heart of daily life.
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Year: 1946 Publisher: Paris: Plon,
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Year: 1971 Publisher: Frankfurt: Suhrkamp,
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Year: 1963 Publisher: Paris: Fayard,
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Year: 1965 Publisher: Madrid: Guadarrama,
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