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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few things shocked the world more in the terrible month of June 1940 than seeing Marshal Philippe Pétain-a highly decorated hero of the first world war-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, he announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he intoned. "My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History." Five years later, in July 1945, Pétain was put on trial...
Author
Publisher
Taurus Ediciones
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
La aventura filosófica de un grupo de jóvenes rebeldes, el Círculo de Jena, que dio lugar al Romanticismo y a nuestra comprensión moderna de la libertad. ¿Cuándo empezamos a exigir el derecho a decidir sobre nuestras vidas? ¿En qué momento nos volvimos tan egocéntricos como lo somos hoy? ¿Cuándo nos planteamos por primera vez la pregunta «¿Cómo puedo ser libre?». Todo comenzó en una tranquila ciudad universitaria de Alemania en la...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The founding principles of the American Revolution-that all individuals have unalienable natural rights to life, liberty, and the fruits of their labor, and that governments should exist only to protect these rights-were a singularity in human history. The nation's failure to secure the slaves' equal rights to self-ownership led to a civil war and the constitutional recognition of this vital principle. And yet, scarcely four decades later, social...
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