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Ein Spanisches Bettelmädchen/ Sommerlicht in Madrid
Light, Color, Shadow
Our work changes the way we see the world. This essay by Swiss art critic Gotthard Jedlicka is proof of that. When living in Madrid, he did not fall in love with wine and tapas, but with the summer light which set the city ablaze with colors – almost like a painting.
Two Treatises of Government: In the former, The false Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
He’s often called the “father of liberalism”: John Locke. His idea about protecting the freedom of the individual as the main duty of the state made its way into the American Declaration of Independence in the form of the famous demand for “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Alter und Neuer großer Staats-Kriegs und Friedens Appenzeller Calender, auf das Jahr 1797
Infotainment in the Age of Enlightenment
The Appenzell calendar of the 18th century was something like a cross between BBC Culture and the Daily Mail: an engaging form of mass media to educate peasant communities. It gave readers easy access to the contemporary events of what was, even back then, an increasingly complicated world.
Histoire des Juifs (‘History of the Jews’, original title: ‘Antiquities of the Jews’)
‘Antiquities of the Jews’: The Illustrated Alternative Bible From the 17th Century
From a Jewish guerrilla fighter to a propaganda writer for the Romans: Flavius Josephus was a fascinating figure of the Roman imperial period. But his ‘Antiquities of the Jews’ became extremely popular in the modern era, as attested by this careful translation of the work into French.
Goethes Italienische Reise
Goethe’s ‘Italian Journey’: A Guide to Beating Burnout
Goethe’s ‘Italienische Reise’ (‘Italian Journey’) is regarded as the work that sparked Germany’s love of Italy, Tuscany, red wine and the Italians’ zest for life. However, this book was no travel guide, but rather a work of self-expression by the ‘Prince of Poets’, as he was known, and the testimony of a burnout-sufferer in search of himself.
