Search Results

“... democratic revolutions was interpenetrated with colonial and imperial enthusiasms from the start. William MaxNelson shows how even the abbé Grégoire, a leading revolutionary who supported political rights for Jews and men of colour, also worked on projects to annihilate French local languages and so advance internal ...”

“... on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation and outbursts of unashamed racism? William Nelson’s Enlightenment Biopolitics offers an elegant solution to the puzzle. French revolutionaries held such extreme views, he argues, because the French Enlightenment pioneered scientific racism a century before adepts of Darwin built racist ...”

“... a triptych. Along with Bosch, Koerner takes up two other artists attuned to dangerous moments: Max Beckmann, a German painter, damaged psychologically in the First World War, who was a near contemporary of Schmitt and Jünger; and William Kentridge, a white South African shaped by anti-apartheid struggles, and ...”