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Critique and Conviction

Conversations with François Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By: Paul Ricœur,François Azouvi,Marc B. de Launay

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Critique and Conviction

Conversations with François Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By: Paul Ricœur,François Azouvi,Marc B. de Launay

In the first of eight conversations, Ricoeur traces the trajectory of his life, recounting the origins of his convictions and the development of his intellect during the tragic events of the twentieth century. Declaring himself the "son of a victim of the First World War," Ricoeur, an orphan, sketches his early years in the house of stern but loving grandparents, and the molding of his intellect under the tutelage of Roland Dalbiez, Gabriel Marcel, and Andre Philip. Ricoeur tells the intriguing story of his capture and five-year imprisonment by the Germans during World War II, when he and his compatriots fashioned an intellectual life complete with a library and lectures, and when he, amazingly, was able to continue his dissertation research.

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Columbia University Press

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023110734X

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9780231107341

Mourning Philology

Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire

By: Marc Nichanian

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Mourning Philology

Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire

By: Marc Nichanian

“Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism,” wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in his life, he wrote largely in this “pagan” vein. If it was an artistic endeavour, why then should art be defined in reference to religion? And which religion precisely? Was Varuzhan echoing Schelling’s Philosophy of Art? Mourning Philology draws on Varuzhan and his work to present a history of the national imagination, which is also a history of national philology, as a reaction to the two main philological inventions of the nineteenth century: mythological religion and the native. In its first part, the book thus gives an account of the successive stages of orientalist philology. The last episode in this story of national emergence took place in 1914 in Constantinople, when the literary journal Mehyan gathered around Varuzhan the great names to come of Armenian literature in the diaspora

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823255255

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9780823255252

Nietzsche and Race

By: Marc de Launay

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Nietzsche and Race

By: Marc de Launay

The caricature of Friedrich Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi is still with us. Behind this caricature sits a long history of misreading and deception, including the well-known story of Nietzsche's Nazi sister, Elisabeth Förster, who took over Nietzsche's work when he became catatonic and systematized a disparate set of texts as The Will to Power. Despite much remarkable work by scholars to debunk the idea that Nietzsche was a racist, or an anti-Semite, or both, this view continues to influence much of the popular perception of Nietzsche and his work. In Nietzsche and Race, Marc de Launay, editor of the Pléiade edition of Nietzsche's writings, deftly counters this persistent narrative in a series of concise and highly accessible reflections on the concept of "race" in Nietzsche's published writings, notebooks, and correspondence. De Launay relates these discussions of race to the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophical project, definitively showing how Nietzsche's use of the term "race" simply does not map onto "racism" in any of the ways his detractors have claimed"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226819728

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9780226819723

Critique and Conviction

Conversations with François Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By: Paul Ricœur,François Azouvi,Marc B. de Launay

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Conversations with François Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By: Paul Ricœur,François Azouvi,Marc B. de Launay

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