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karl marx: the romantic idealist as hidden face
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he makes… …Marx’s dreams were imperialist in scale, ecumenical in scope, and grounded on a panoramic view of world history. Such cosmopolitanism, too, is characteristic of his generation. … Continue reading
karl marx: the face of romanticism
The many faces of Karl Marx: the dominant one is the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …The paradoxes begin with his birth. he was born of comfortably off middle-class parents, not in one of … Continue reading
karl marx: the romantic idealist
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …It was to this generation that Karl Marx, born in 1818, belonged. There is no cause for surprise that he became a revolutionary; it would almost … Continue reading
karl marx: poet at the barricade
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …To many of that generation “revolution” was a holy word, and the spirit of freedom appeared, as in Delacroix’s famous painting, as a beautiful bare-breasted woman … Continue reading
karl marx: many faces
The many faces of Karl Marx: Prophet, historian, newspaperman, revolutionary, philosopher, fond papa- all thse faces were his, and one other; that is, the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… One can imagine few greater … Continue reading
terrorism: getting to the verbal convention
…A comparison of two famous acts of terrorism underscores the difference, and at the same time illuminates its nature. The first case is that of Vera Zasulich, an idealistic young Russian socialist who, in January, 1878, shot and seriously wounded … Continue reading
consequences: scrambling with the brutes
…To some the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s link with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cut … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun, Gregor Mendel, Immanuel Kant, John Dalton, Julian Huxley, Karl Marx, Linley Sambourne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pierre teilhard de chardin
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beat the clock
In some measure, what John Lukacs is saying is that a good many people were wrong in their perceptions of what was occurring during World War II. But he is also saying more than that, something more interesting and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Szyk, Battle of Britain, Johan Huizinga, John Lukacs, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monica Osborne, Oliver Wallace Music, Oliver Wallace Walt Disney, Otto Dix, Owen Chadwick, Rudolph Herzog, Second World War, Sigmund Freud
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disturbed but preserved
After two millennia, the words still strike with amazement, the visions still transport us, there are still secrets only half discovered.Most of the ancient books have been destroyed either intentionally or accidentally, hatred and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Akkadian words, Aristophanes, Babylonian King Hammurabi, Bram Stoker, Catalan Atlas, Hammurabi Law Code, Hungarian Angevin Legendary Hungary, Karl Marx, Livy historian, Livy History of Rome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Neil MacGregor British Museum, Pompeii frescoes, Stele of Hammurabi, The Aleppo Codex, Vatican Library
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