Loïc, vieil homme solitaire et peu fréquentable, vit retiré dans un village des Côtes d’Armor. Attaché à sa terre, aux traditions, coincé depuis toujours entre le ciel et la mer, il mène une existence paisible.Excédé par un voleur qui visite régulièrement son poulailler, il s’arme de son vieux fusil pour le poursuivre à travers champs. Sur la piste du fuyard, une découverte embarrassante le contraint de mettre un terme à cette chasse.Désormais, l’équilibre est définitivemen...

The Apology of the Augsburg Confession is a significant theological work by Philipp Melanchthon, serving as a defense of the Lutheran faith against the criticisms posed by the Roman Catholic Church. Written in response to the Confutation, which sought to refute the Augsburg Confession, Melanchthon articulates the core beliefs of Lutheranism, emphasizing justification by faith and the authority of Scripture. This document not only clarifies Lutheran doctrine but also aims to foster dialogue...

Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria—after Aleppo and Damascus—Acre was the capital of a politically and economically unique region on the Mediterranean coast that included what is today northern Israel and southern Lebanon. In the eighteenth cen...

The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also t...

Memories, sensory experiences, expectations, and intentions, as well as thoughts, fears, and hopes: all share a fundamental trait, the fact that our conscious psychological states take place in time, and often are about time in some way or other. Temporality is an inescapable feature of the mind which has preoccupied philosophers and psychologists in diverse traditions such as Locke, Hume, Reid, Kant, Helmholtz, James, Husserl, Broad, and Bergson.The Temporal ...

In today's organizational sociology, organizations are usually regarded as late achievements of modernity in the history of mankind. Max Weber is repeatedly cited as the supposed guarantor of this thesis. But neither his type of "bureaucratic rule" nor his concept of "rational work organization" - although both are tailored to modern conditions - contain, on closer inspection, compelling arguments for a principled limitation of organizations as such to modernity. Both actually reach their ...

Literature & Ideas is the fifth volume in The Human Record. It turns from the world we discover to the words and ideas we use to make sense of it: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Spoken and the Written through The Shapes of Story, How to Live How to Die, The Word and the World, and The Inner World, closing with How We Live Together. Each card is built around a single work or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for gu...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe’s candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces....

Philippe Rochat’s FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness. It is built around the premise that finitude and separation form the human self-conscious reality of time. It argues that we need to reclaim time from current theories in physics that tend to debunk time as an illusion, or state that time simply does not exist.This thought-provoking book considers how, from a human psychological and existential standpoint, time is very real. It examines how we make sense of ...

Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design. It offers designers from disciplines such as architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, interior, and industrial design an alternative ethical framework in which to expand their thinking about their practice.Arguing that design today is primarily an agency driven by the momentum of globalization, embedded in economy, materialism, and utility, t...

"Travels in England in 1782" by Karl Philipp Moritz is a fascinating travelogue that captures the essence of England during the late 18th century. Moritz, a German writer and philosopher, provides a detailed account of his observations as he journeys through various towns and cities. His keen insights into the culture, society, and landscape of England offer readers a vivid portrayal of the time. The book reflects Moritz's curiosity and his desire to understand the English way of life, mak...

Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1913 edition by Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London.This is an illustrated edition.This is a witness account to many interesting and almost unknown sides of life in Palestine. The author had excellent opportunities for accumulating facts regarding the people and customs of the Holy Land.