AMERICA: THE VIEW FROM EUROPE1976 |
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... mind I have tried to include enough different writers ( over sixty ) from enough different countries ( Great Britain , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , Spain ) in enough different centuries ( all five which have elapsed since the dis ...
... mind I have tried to include enough different writers ( over sixty ) from enough different countries ( Great Britain , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , Spain ) in enough different centuries ( all five which have elapsed since the dis ...
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... mind of Europe imprisoned within the corrupt and depressing world which Machiavelli had so memorably portrayed in The Prince . Spenser's Fairyland could be as real as Lorenzo de ' Medici's Florence . The Golden Age The immediate effect ...
... mind of Europe imprisoned within the corrupt and depressing world which Machiavelli had so memorably portrayed in The Prince . Spenser's Fairyland could be as real as Lorenzo de ' Medici's Florence . The Golden Age The immediate effect ...
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... mind seems determined to reduce it . Yet however inaccurate or oversimplified they may be , the images I have been describing cannot be dismissed as mere delusions . Justified or not , they are cultural facts . As I have tried to show ...
... mind seems determined to reduce it . Yet however inaccurate or oversimplified they may be , the images I have been describing cannot be dismissed as mere delusions . Justified or not , they are cultural facts . As I have tried to show ...
Contents
CHAPTER ONE The Best of All Possible Worlds | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO A Fools Paradise | 21 |
CHAPTER THREE The Open Society | 43 |
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