Author: Stathis Kouvelakis File Type: epub Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity a revolution without revolution. Trapped in a politically ossified society, German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the revolutionary experience. In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those socialistsamong them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engelswho sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture, proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself.**From Publishers WeeklyThis ambitious tract on the formation of Karl Marxs ideas brings together disparate currents in an original and multifaceted reading. Combining intellectual history and biographical narrative, with a hemming and hawing distrust of both modes, Kouvelakis re-evalutates the cultural context of Marxs ideological development, and the constellation of personalities that made it possible. Poet Heinrich Heine, the first ironic German, gains some footing in Kouvelakiss evaluation, while Engels recedes a bit, and the primacy of the 1848 French Revolutions effects on the thought of 19th century German philosophy in general remains unquestioned. Overall, the book produces the effect of bright webbing strung between the people and events of a pivotal time, as the ancien regime of Europe segued convulsively into modernity, winding pathways of thought leading always towards the explosive event of revolution. Admittedly, some of this effect might be a result of unwieldy translations I have chosen to approach the early Marxs trajectory as a theoretical event that is utterly incomprehensible when it is considered apart from the sequence that precedes it (chronologically, to begin with, but also in the order of my exposition) yet is radically irreducible to it. And thats only the second half of a weighty, establishing thought. For scholars of Marx or European philosophy, and those accustomed to labored, academic prose, this book offers a fresh methodology and original interpretation of Marxs achievements. 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Perhaps the first truly original new version of [Marxs] formation since Auguste Cornus monumental postwar history ... but also a new theory of what is structurally most central and distinctive in Marxs achievement, namely the unique political nature and powers of the proletariat.Fredric Jameson, from the Preface

Author: Charlotte Brontë File Type: pdf Shirley is Charlotte Bront--euml--s only historical novel and her most topical one. The introduction to this new edition considers its autobiographical overtones as well as its social context, and includes revised notes and bibliography. - You expected bread, and you have got a stone break your teeth on it, and dont shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob. Shirley is Charlotte Bront--euml--s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Bront--euml--s deep yearning for an earlier time. -

Author: Lynn Sumida Joy File Type: pdf Scholars in the early seventeenth century who studied ancient Greek scientific theories often drew upon philology and history to reconstruct a more general picture of the Greek past. Gassendis training as a humanist historiographer enabled him to formulate a conception of the history of philosophy in which the rationality of scientific and philosophical inquiry depended on the historical justifications which he developed for his beliefs. Professor Joy examines this conception and analyzes the nature of Gassendis historical training, especially its relationship to his career as a physicist and astronomer. She shows how he rehabilitated Epicurean atomism by bringing together the arguments of the Greek atomists and those of his contemporaries. In doing so, he produced an account of the natural world which made it an object of empirical study and mechanical explanation.

Author: Stanley Ireland File Type: pdf First published in 1986, this book is an authoritative collection of the major sources for Roman Britain. It incorporates not only extracts from the main literary sources - Caesar, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Ammianus, Bede, Gildas and Zosimus - but a substantial collection of inscriptions and coins. In this new edition translations of the most important of the Vindolanda tablets - published since the first edition appeared - have been added and the epigraphic references have been updated and new material added, including inscribed rings, tiles and other items from all around the country.**ReviewFor those who teach courses on Roman Britain, or as students require easy access to source material alluded to in the main-stream textbooks, this handy compendium, encompassing literary, epigraphic and numismatic material, will be especially welcome - Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology Its extensive coverage of geography and people, political and military history, and especially religion, government, commerce and society, its many inscriptions and coin illustrations, and up-dated bibliography, all combine to make this collection much more than simply convenient and it remains, moreover, within a students purchasing power. - Greece & Rome, Volume 43About the Author Stanley Ireland is a Lecturer in the Joint School of Classics, University of Warwick.