The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
Continue Reading →Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in ...
Continue Reading →Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 ...
Continue Reading →Author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political ...
Continue Reading →The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. ...
Continue Reading →While Jefferson is responsible for a voluminous body of literature, this is the first time an editor has focused principally on his comments regarding war ...
Continue Reading →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
Continue Reading →The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (German: Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) is an 1872 work of dramatic ...
Continue Reading →Nietzsche contra Wagner is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed of recycled passages from his past works. It was written in his last year ...
Continue Reading →In his Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, Thomas Robert Malthus discusses the circumstances surrounding the proposed laws on the foreign grain market, ...
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