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Andrea Wulf Rebelse genieën
de eerste romantici en de uitvinding van het ik
Historische beschouwing van hoe een groep Duitse intellectuelen, onder wie Hegel en Goethe, aan het eind van de achttiende eeuw een revolutie van de geest teweegbrachten met hun gedachtegoed over het individu als het centrum van de wereld, vrijheid en zelfbeschikking.
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Nederlands | 542 pagina's (ePub2, 24 MB) | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2022
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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
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Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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