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  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

    A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

    by Michael Kempe ...
    Translated by Marshall Yarbrough ...
    A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized ... Read more

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    The Best of All Possible Worlds

    A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

    by Michael Kempe ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized the modern computer, and developed the famous thesis that the existing world is the best that God could have created.Historian and Leibniz expert Michael Kempe takes us on a journey into the mind of a ... Read more

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  • Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

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    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with ... Read more

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  • Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf

    A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Bruce Lincoln ...
    In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God," fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and humanity—a baffling claim that attracted the notice of the judges then and still commands attention ... Read more

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  • Latin

    by Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

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  • The Genius of Language

    Observations for Teachers (CW 299)

    by Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford, Ádám Makkai ...
    Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch ...
    Series Book 7 - Education
    6 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 26, 1919 - Jan. 3, 1920 (CW 299)To one who understands the sense of speechThe world unveilsIts image form.To one who listens to the soul of speechThe world unfoldsIts true being.To one who lives in the spirit depths of speechThe world gives freelyWisdom's strength.To one who lovingly can dwell on speechSpeech will accordIts inner might.So... ... Read more

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  • Leibniz

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Maria Rosa Antognazza ...
    Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous endeavours, Antognazza ... Read more

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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

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  • On the Ruins of Babel

    Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

    by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural ... Read more

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  • Futures Past

    On the Semantics of Historical Time

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    Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the ... Read more

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  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... Read more

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