Metahistory


The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Plato and Aristotle
The World of the Polis
Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient: Symbols of Order in Eric Voegelin's Order and History (1) (Eric Voegelin Studies: Supplements) (English and German Edition)
Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective (International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice)
Louvre: All the Paintings
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships
The Story of Sex: A Graphic History Through the Ages
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World
Contraduction
Global Tech Wars: China's Race to Dominate
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Terraglossia
But if the gradualness of this process misled the Romans there were other and equally potent reasons for their blindness. Most potent of all was the fact that they mistook entirely the very nature of civilization itself. All of them were making the same mistake. People who thought that Rome could swallow barbarism and absorb it into her life without diluting her own civilization; the people who ran about busily saying that the barbarians were not such bad fellows after all, finding good points i ...more
Eileen Power, Medieval People

Ernst Jünger
I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad, in contrast, still pours his wine into the same decaying old wineskins, he still believes in a constitution when nothing and no one constitutes anything.
Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

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