In The Erotics of War in German Romanticism, Patricia Anne Simpson explores the ways early nineteenth-century German philosophers, poets, and artists represent

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The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose su

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New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present. Enlightened War investigates the multiple