Immense biographie pour un immense auteur, inclassable et suisse de surcroît. Débutant en 1924 par un journalisme "engagé", il devient célèbre avec son ouvrage ##L'amour et l'Occident## (1939) après avoir conjugué le personnalisme avec Monnier qu'il reliera au fédéralisme européen. Auteur d'une oeuvre singulière et multiple, la série de ses "journaux" constitue un témoignage de première main sur l'entre-deux-guerres et ses funestes suites, au point de vue européen
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God , and thy neighbour as thyself . ' It is in loving his neighbour that a Christian is fulfilled and truly loves himself . Agape brings no fusion or ecstatic dissolving of the self in God .
" For these lovers, time closes like a book, but it remains open for us as we hear both new tones and familiar voices, eerily like our own, in this age-old story made new again.
Humorous, tender, and moving, The Lone Pilgrim is the work of a master of the short story form.
The first-ever comprehensive examination of Tzvetan Todorov's cultural theory and his place in European thought.
In this book, Georgia, writing together with Timothy Wyllie, shares her personal account of Earth in the 8th millennium BCE, the first era of Atlantis.
What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as...
In this book Kerry Whiteside introduces the work of a range of French ecological theorists to an English-speaking audience.
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The ...
Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history.