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Author: Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Botanisch Museum en Herbarium
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 564
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Author: Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Botanisch Museum en Herbarium
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacques Rupnik
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Heberlein
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1487008120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible. The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. Arendt’s thinking is intimately entwined with her life and the concrete experiences she drew from her encounters with evil, but also from love, exile, statelessness, and longing. This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane. On Love and Tyranny brings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.
Author: Ólafur Egilsson
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Published: 2018-03-11
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0813228700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur—born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei—wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive and as a traveler across Europe as he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the Icelandic captives that remained behind. He was a keen observer, and the narrative is filled with a wealth of detail―social, political, economic, religious―about both the Maghreb and Europe. It is also a moving story on the human level: We witness a man enduring great personal tragedy and struggling to reconcile such calamity with his understanding of God. The Travels is the first-ever English translation of the Icelandic text. Until now, the corsair raid on Iceland has remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. To give a clearer sense of the extraordinary events connected with that raid, this edition of The Travels includes not only Reverend Olafur’s first-person narrative but also a collection of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. Also included are appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context.
Author: Peter Romijn
Publisher: Vossiupers UvA
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789056297237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of current Dutch research on the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War
Author: Rob de Wijk
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9048529905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why power politics never truly went away-and why, as the West's position weakens, it's likely to play a bigger and bigger role on the global stage in the coming years.
Author: Jaak de Vos
Publisher: Academia Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789038211947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Hendriks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 019957278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVital Democracy outlines an innovative new theory of democracy in action.
Author: Gert Vermeulen
Publisher: Maklu
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9046601161
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