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The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues among Lucian, Erasmus & Voltaire on the Enlightenment
Summary of the main ideas of the Enlightenment and its effect on the modern world, presented as a dialogue between Voltaire and Erasmus moderated by Lucian. Meaning of history concepts of happiness, reason, and imagination existentialism.
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173 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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Peter Gay
154 books158 followersPeter Joachim Gay was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He authored over 25 books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a two-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968); and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).
Gay was born in Berlin in 1923, left Germany in 1939 and emigrated, via Cuba, to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University's History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984.
Gay was the interim editor of The American Scholar after the death of Hiram Haydn in 1973 and served on that magazine's editorial board for many years. Sander L. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period".
Gay was born in Berlin in 1923, left Germany in 1939 and emigrated, via Cuba, to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University's History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984.
Gay was the interim editor of The American Scholar after the death of Hiram Haydn in 1973 and served on that magazine's editorial board for many years. Sander L. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period".
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November 28, 2021
Δοσμένο με χιούμορ και ευφυΐα, ένα βιβλίο που σίγουρα θα σε κάνει να στοχαστείς...
March 27, 2020
Αυτό το βιβλίο του Peter Gray, όπως και η "Υπεράσπιση του Διαφωτισμού" του Todorov, αποσκοπούν στο να υπερασπιστούν τον Διαφωτισμό από τις επικρίσεις που δέχτηκε στον 20ό αιώνα, οπότε προβαίνουν σε διακρίσεις μεταξύ του «αληθινού πνεύματος» του Διαφωτισμού, αντιδιαστέλλοντάς το από αυτά που οι ίδιοι θεωρούν ως «διαστρεβλώσεις» του. Αν και στη λογοτεχνική παρουσίαση του Gay, ο Διαφωτισμός εξετάζεται σε συνάρτηση με την εποχή του, ενώ ο Todorov τον συλλαμβάνει με δυναμικό τρόπο, ως κάτι που διαρκώς εξελίσσεται, και οι δύο συμφωνούν ως προς την ανάγκη διατήρησης των κεντρικών αξιών του Διαφωτισμού σήμερα.
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