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Un patrimoine Méconnu
di Caroline Morizot e Nathalie Volle
L’esposizione, nella magnifica cornice della sagrestia medievale del Collège des Bernardins, di una selezione di dipinti e disegni appartenenti alla diocesi di Parigi costituisce una splendida occasione per presentare lo stato attuale delle ricerche sulle collezioni diocesane. Queste ultime costituiscono infatti un insieme poderoso di circa 10.000 oggetti di varia provenienza: depositi di parrocchie o congregazioni scomparse, donazioni o lasciti di privati. Per l’occasione curatori, ricercatori e storici dell’arte, francesi e stranieri, sono stati chiamati a studiare le opere presentate e a collocarle nel contesto della loro creazione e del loro viaggio storico.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
di Harriet Beecher Stowe
The novel that changed the course of American history
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written.
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Vailed Sentiments
di Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.
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Verhaltenslehren der Kälte
di Helmut Lethen
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Versuche in der Theodisee über die Güte Gottes
di Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Villa Del Bene. La perla della Valdadige
«Questo volume vorrebbe ambire ad accompagnare il curioso, l’appassionato, il visitatore, il lettore in un viaggio che, ci si augura, possa essere il più immersivo e arricchente possibile. Un viaggio alla scoperta di un patrimonio – artistico, architettonico, storico – attraverso immagini che, spesso, parlano da sole. L’intento di questo catalogo è, dunque, guidare lo sguardo in un percorso di tipo visivo, quasi museale. Quasi poiché non è davvero possibile considerare Villa Del Bene
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Was ist Aufklärung?
di Immanuel Kant
Dieser Band enthält – neben der im Titel geführten Abhandlung von 1784 – die kleinen, aber bedeutenden Schriften Kants zur Politik und Geschichtsphilosophie aus der Berlinischen Monatsschrift. In ihnen wollte der Königsberger Philosoph seinen Lesern aufzeigen, dass jeder Einzelne aufgerufen sei, der ‘selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit’ zu entrinnen und sich künftig aus freiem Mut für die Errichtung eines gesellschaftlichen Statuts einzusetzen, in welchem niemand mehr aufgrund seiner Herkunft benachteiligt oder bevorzugt werden könne.
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Was ist Aufklärung?
di Ehrhard Bahr e Immanuel Kant