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| Rosenwein's Law: "For any given academic work the clarity of the hypothesis is in reverse proportion to the number of secondary sources cited in the Introduction." ...more | |
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| An interesting resource, Riccardo Calimani. A Venetian Jew descended from a long line of Venetian Jews and scholars, an authority on... guess. Calimani has a theory about Marranos. And Marranas, of course, though they’re barely mentioned in his book. ...more | |
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| "It’s an O. But it might have been an L, G, B, T or a Q. Even D, E, or I. A band of self-centered pirates take over a country with plans to strip it of its treasure. When met with disgust and recalcitrance, they decide as well to ban the letter O. Af ...more | |
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Nils's review
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Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times:
"While taking the form of an extremely erudite intellectual history — “See Ma?” Moyn the sometime intellectual historian seems to want to say, “I can still do it!” — of “Cold War liberals” like Judith Shklar, Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Ber"
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Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times:
"This is a temporary note. I gave this book a five-star rating not because I agreed with it, but because it spurred my thinking. I agreed with some of it and disagreed strongly with other parts of it. More to come."
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Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
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