French pantheistic philosopher, economist, pacifist, government official, and champion of socialism through various reviews and newspapers that he helped found.
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Lydia Maria Child was an American author of antislavery works that had great influence in her time. Born into an abolitionist family, Lydia Maria Francis...
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Christopher McCandless, American adventurer who died from starvation and possibly poisoning while camping alone on a remote trail in Alaska.
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Educator who was Harvard University's first professor of German language and literature. He also was instrumental in establishing the first US college...
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William Blake's Universe, the new (free) exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, is a celebration of work by the Romantic artist, writer and...
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Long, long ago—actually, about five centuries—the seeds and roots of Marxism had been planted and were actively growing. Fredrick Engels's The Peasant Wars...
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Clarice Lispector's 'The Apple in the Dark' wrestles with the limits of language, seeking language to crack the glass between us and reality.
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Zu Lebzeiten von der Kirche als Ketzer verschrien, gilt Jacob Böhme heute als bedeutendster Autor christlicher Mystik. Dabei war er ein einfacher...
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Mit Mystik gegen die dogmatisch beschränkten „Klüglinge“: Dem Naturphilosophen Jakob Böhme zum 400. Todestag. Von Christoph Kann.
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Jakob Böhme entzieht sich mit seiner altertümlichen Sprache und tiefgründigen Inhalten einer breiten Popularisierung. Aber Klaus Weingarten betont,...
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