Terror And Greatness
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Terror And Greatness
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Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-15
Terror And Greatness written by Kevin M. F. Platt and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-15 with History categories.
In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of praise and condemnation remains unresolved; often the violence is simply repressed. Platt explores historical and cultural representations of the two rulers from the early nineteenth century to the present, as they shaped and served the changing dictates of Russian political life. Throughout, he shows how past representations exerted pressure on subsequent attempts to evaluate these liminal figures. In ever-changing and often counterposed treatments of the two, Russians have debated the relationship between greatness and terror in Russian political practice, while wrestling with the fact that the nation’s collective selfhood has seemingly been forged only through shared, often self-inflicted trauma. Platt investigates the work of all the major historians, from Karamzin to the present, who wrote on Ivan and Peter. Yet he casts his net widely, and "historians" of the two tsars include poets, novelists, composers, and painters, giants of the opera stage, Party hacks, filmmakers, and Stalin himself. To this day the contradictory legacies of Ivan and Peter burden any attempt to come to terms with the nature of political power—past, present, future—in Russia.
Terror Greatness
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Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Terror Greatness written by Kevin M. F. Platt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Exploring historical and cultural representations of the two Russian rulers as they shaped and reflected political shifts.
Tyrants
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Author : Waller R. Newell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Tyrants written by Waller R. Newell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-26 with History categories.
A history of tyranny from Achilles to today's Jihadists, this volume shows why tyrannical temptation is a permanent danger.
The Sublime Terror And Human Difference
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Author : Christine Battersby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007
The Sublime Terror And Human Difference written by Christine Battersby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
This volume challenges current theories of gender, the feminine, and the female and is essential reading for students of gender and feminist theory, philosophy and visual culture.
The Targums Of Jonathan Ben Uzziel On The Pentateuch With The Fragments Of The Jerusalem Targum From The Chaldee
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Author : J. W. Etheridge
language : en
Publisher: Christian Classics Reproductions
Release Date : 2022-04-26
The Targums Of Jonathan Ben Uzziel On The Pentateuch With The Fragments Of The Jerusalem Targum From The Chaldee written by J. W. Etheridge and has been published by Christian Classics Reproductions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Religion categories.
Excerpt from The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch: With the Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum, From the Chaldee; Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy The holy Pentateuch opens with a sentence which combines the majesty and simplicity of a Divine oracle In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and th cart a sentence whose few but sublime words throw the first beam of light on the otherwise inscrutable mystery of existence, and lead us up to the foun tain and cause of created being, in God, its Author and End. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime And Beautiful
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Author : Edmund Burke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-06-02
A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime And Beautiful written by Edmund Burke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Art categories.
Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burke’s subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime"—an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke’s essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary. Edmund Burke (1729–1797). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived during a turbulent time in world history, which saw revolutions in America and France that inspired his most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Works
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Author : Ezekiel Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
Works written by Ezekiel Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with categories.
Tyrants
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Author : Waller R. Newell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Tyrants written by Waller R. Newell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Despotism categories.
Generation T And The War On Terror
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Author : Michael Fields
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-08
Generation T And The War On Terror written by Michael Fields and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with History categories.
The United States is the greatest country in the history of the World. Terrorism, however, threatens the very foundation of our greatness. As a country, we must overcome our white guilt, entitlement mentality, and lack of Congressional leadership. We must acknowledge that evil exists and it needs to be dealt with. America changed on 9/11 and we no longer have an excuse to ignore the global threats we face. This book attempts to address an issue that has been dominated by a discourse of media pundits and scholars who were raised in a different era (Vietnam-Watergate). Terrorism is a challenge that America is facing today, but the struggle will be ongoing. The divisions within the Baby Boomers will force the Upcoming Generation to step up and defeat the Islamic Extremists' mentality. These challenges provide the opportunity for the Upcoming Generation to develop a heroic legacy for itself as a generation that defended the very essence of freedom.
The Sublime
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Author : Andrew Ashfield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-08-15
The Sublime written by Andrew Ashfield and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-15 with Fiction categories.
This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a number of fields - literary criticism, empirical psychology, political economy, connoisseurship, landscape design and aesthetics, painting and the fine arts, and moral philosophy - and has continued to animate aesthetic and theoretical debates to this day. However, the unavailability of many of the crucial texts of the founding tradition has resulted in a conception of the Sublime often limited to the definitions of its most famous theorist Edmund Burke. Andrew Ashfield and Peter de Bolla's anthology, which includes an introduction and notes to each entry, offers students and scholars ready access to a much deeper and more complex tradition of writings on the Sublime, many of them never before printed in modern editions.