There has been a veritable Hegel Renaissance, especially in France and Germany. This renewed interest in Hegel is preoccupied with Hegel's metaphysical and religious ideas. The favorite work and the one having given rise to the most interesting discussions is the Phenomenology of the Spirit. The most remarkable book in this trend is Alexandre Kojëve, Introduction à la Lecture de Hegel-Leçons…
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OUR SUBJECT is the birth of civilization in the Near East. We shall not, therefore, consider the question how civilization in the abstract became possible. I do not think there is an answer to that question; in any case it is a philosophical rather than a historical one. But it may be said that the material we are going to discuss has a unique bearing on it all the same. For the emergence of Eg…
This book is the result of many years' effort to deal effectively with the problems involved in the first part of a survey course in world history. The chief problem, as every instructor will recognize, is how to provide an interpretation of major past civilizations while at the same time giving enough facts to make the interpretation meaningful. The student needs both fact and interpretation; …
WHOEVER would seek the origin of things that in countless ways control mankind begins an arduous task. One can readily tell when the radio, motion picture, airplane, or automobile appeared, for he well remembers the time he saw the first of these or at least can talk with people who saw the first ones. But it is more difficult to imagine the days when the internal-combustion engine was produced…
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THE NEW PEOPLE. Painting from the Cemetery of St. Priscilla in the Catacombs, Rome. Wilpert, Die Katakombenge- mälde und ihrer alten copien (Herder, Freiburg i.B)rnrnThe art of the catacombs is the first outward manifestationrnrnof Christian culture, and shows in a remarkable way how thernrnexternal forms of the old Roman-Hellenistic culture werernrnassimilated and modified by the new spiritua…
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