Sublime

John Jourdain

Si, dans l’analyse des relations que les trois révolutions libérales entretiennent, d’un côté, avec les Noirs, et, de l’autre, avec les Irlandais, les Indiens et les natifs, on part du présupposé d’un temps historique homogène, non traversé de fractures et coulant d’une façon unilinéaire, on se trompe. C’est chez Montaigne, nettement antérieur à Lo

Nathaniel Courthope,

Another worthwhile source is the title essay in The Prevalence of Humbug by Max Black.

Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican philosophe

In 1791, under the auspices of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the federal government imposed a Whiskey Tax intended to help repay the young republic’s debts. Hamilton also hoped it would drive small rural producers out of business in the favor of larger ones. It was one of Hamilton’s less laudable ideas, and the residents of Washingt

Some of the clergy, as Erasmus pointed out, adopted as part of their occupational identity a halting gait that was thought to denote intense internal musings, a habit (or affectation, according to your viewpoint) that was still being satirized by Jane Austen at the start of the nineteenth century.