Invention de la liberté, 1700-1789

Jena philosophy, historicism, and literature energized nineteenth-century European intellectual life. Their key concerns were time and meaning, quintessentiallyRomantic, but they s...

Abstract This book offers the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking in Europe in the late hand-press period, 1700–1830. It begins with the invention of f...

Chapter 1 uses a historical, and notably unconventional, example of witnessing to demonstrate how bearing witness involves sometimes radical and purposeful rhetorical invention (or...

Ce livre s’inscrit dans le débat contemporain sur l’actualité de la philosophie des Lumières discutant en particulier, par le biais des images de Spinoza au XVIIIe siècle, des gran...

Alors que le débat tend à se focaliser sur la radicalisation, le sujet de la conversion reste peu étudié. Cet ouvrage vient combler une lacune importante. Il croise le regard sur d...

These two volumes provide in-depth coverage of 24 of history's most important inventors and their inventions. Who invented the sewing machine, the telephone, the internal...

Abstract This book corrals global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created sc...