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Author Friedell, Egon

Title A Cultural History of the Modern Age : Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (388 pages)
Series Cultural History of the Modern Age
Cultural History of the Modern Age
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Introduction What is Cultural History and Why is it Studied?; The Forgotten Star; All Things Have Their Philosophy; Æsthetic, Ethical, Logical History-Writing; Map and Portrait; School-Book History; Unscientific Character of the Basic Concepts of History-Writing; Subterranean Course of Historical Action; Ranke's Error; All History is Legend; Homunculus and Euphorion; Historical Novels -- Incompleteness as Far as Possible; Exaggeration; Economics; Society; State; Custom
Science, Art, Philosophy, ReligionThe Philosophers' Stone; The Representative Man; The Expressionist Dog; Spiritual Costume-History; Genius is a Product of the Age; The Age is a Product of the Genius; Genius and Age are Incommensurable; Pedigree; Lessing and Herder; Winckelmann and Voltaire; Hegel and Comte; Buckle; Burckhardt; Taine; Lamprecht; Breysig; Spengler; History in a Late Period; Pro Domo; The Professional Dilettante; The Inevitable Paradox; The Legitimate Plagiarist; Pathological and Physiological Originality
Book I: Renaissance and Reformation From the Black Death to the Thirty Years' WarChapter I: The Beginning; The Will to Pigeon-Hole; The Right to Periodize; The Conception of the New Man; The Transitional Period -- Beginning of the Excursus on the Value of Sickness; The Healthiest Being is the Amœba; All That is Becoming is Decadent; Higher Value of Organs in Lowered Condition; Health is, Therefore, a Metabolism-Sickness; The Lernæan Hydra; The Achilles out of the Heel; The Survival of the Unfit; Genius is Never Healthy; Genius is Never Sick; The Threefold Division of Mankind
Production as a RefugeChapter II: The Mediæval Soul; The ""Romanticism"" of the Middle Ages; Life as Adventure; Psychosis of Puberty; The Sainted Dog; No Relation to Money; Universalia Sunt Realia; The World-Cathedral; The Physics of Belief; Everything is; The Scene Changes; Chapter III The Incubation Period; The Discovery of the Plague; The Parallel Epidemic; The Well-Poisoners; Cosmic Disturbance; World-Downfall; Dethronement of Universals; Christ in the Donkey; The Two Faces of Nominalism; Twilight; Folie Circulaire; Anarchy from Above; Loosening of the Orders of Society
Sickening of the Metaphysical OrganPractical Nihilism; Intensified Economic Life; Rise of the Guilds; Professional Dilettantism; Dawn of Rationalism; Poetry of Actuality; Emancipation; Decay of Chivalry; The Great Transvaluation; Picturesque Filth; Oriental Tumult; Standard of Living; The Open Roads; The Holy Fehme; Erotic Driven out by Sexuality; The Culture of the Table; The World-Nightmare; The Fourfold Pincers; The Luxemburg Comet; Crowned Paranoiacs; English-French Chaos; Anti-Clericalism; Wyclif; Papa Triumphans; Dæmons and Magicians; Money Economics with a Bad Conscience
Notes The World-Brothel
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Subject Reformation.
Reformation.
Reformation
Form Electronic book
Author Janik, Allan
Janik, Allan S
ISBN 9781351535786
1351535781