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French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter s Journey "are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror.

The dialogues in "A Winter" "s Journey "structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980 chart Virilio s intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable...

Among the more interesting incunabula preserved in the Salle de la Reserve of the Bibliotheque National in Paris are the apparently unique copies of two editions, very similar in content, of a work entitled Les Adevineaux amoureux. In much more comprehensive form Les Adevineaux amoureux is preserved in a manuscript belonging to the Musee Conde at Chantilly. All three texts, in medieval French, appear to date from the 1470s. The present work, Amorous Games, is a critical edition of Les Adevineaux amoureux.

Amorous Games...

The Peasant's War in Germany and his own ill-health combined to keep Erasmus confined to the city of Basel during 1525, but he was still able to maintain an active correspondence spanning all of Europe. In the preceding year, he had published De libero artbitrio/Freedom of the Will, his first open attack on the teachings of Martin Luther. Despite this public defence of Catholic doctrine, Erasmus was continually forced in his correspondence to reply to open or veiled attacks by Catholic critics.

Erasmus directly addressed one of his critics, No+l BTda, of the Paris theological...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine's death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed "heroic" couplets. While Argent's translation is faithful to Racine's text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine's rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic...

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, however, the Swiss version of the Lutheran Reformation triumphed in the city, destroying the liberal-reformist atmosphere Erasmus had found so congenial. Unwilling to live in a place where Catholic doctrine and practice were officially proscribed, Erasmus resettled in the quiet, reliably Catholic university town of Freiburg im Breisgau,

Despite the turmoil of moving, Erasmus managed to...

Karl Philipp Moritz (1756 1793) war nach Schule und Studium Zeit seines Lebens als Lehrer und Professor tatig. Der vorliegende Band 6 der Samtlichen Werke, Schriften zur Padagogik und Freimaurerei, enthalt alle Schriften, die mit padagogischer Praxis in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang stehen. Dazu gehoren auch Texte, deren padagogische Intention nicht zu ubersehen ist: Die einzige vollstandig uberlieferte Predigt sowie der Sammelband Die grosse Loge (1793), der moralphilosophische und asthetische Aufsatze und Freimaurerreden enthalt und der zugleich eine...

Until now, there has been no complete critical textual edition of the works of Gunther, after Carl Enders was unable to realize his publishing plans and since Wilhelm Kramer's edition remained incomplete. The new edition takes all of the works of the great Silesian poet into consideration, including their preliminary stages and fragments. The commentary section provides detailed explanations of the textual legacy and dissemination, including musical settings of the poetry and translations. The occasions and dates for writing the poems are discussed, and difficult sections are explained....

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the "heroic" couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet's compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine's is in French.

Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to...