Alhemija reči
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- Author: Muschg Adolf
- Publisher: Karpos
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- Condition: New book
- Code: 53274
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Alhemija reči
Muschg Adolf
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Adolf Muschg: The Alchemy of Words: Essays and Speeches 2002 - 2013
This collection of essays and speeches by the celebrated Swiss writer and university professor Adolf Muschg opens with an essay on Velázquez's painting "The Weaver", in which Muschg already demonstrates all his sumptuous talent for analysis, for unusual insights that intellectually expose, for lucid analogies that underlie inexorable erudition. All this essayistic gift permeates the other essays, thematically quite different, whether they talk about education ("What does education mean"), European identity and the future of Europe, our relationship to animals ("How an animal sees animals"), the challenges of modern society and its economy, tolerance, cultural memory, the digital revolution, etc. Muschg also has a keen political sense, so, even taking into account the cultural climate of Western Europe, his views are unusually bold (especially when he criticizes the desire of some ethnic communities to monopolize the status of eternal victims and the desire for privileges that are desired and achieved from this). Muschg is also an excellent connoisseur of German classical culture, so his reference to Geöthe, Humboldt or Jacob Burckhardt almost always reminds the reader of the fact that the great authors of the past still have something to say that is relevant to our present.
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- Author: Muschg Adolf
- Publisher: Karpos
- Year of publication:2019
- Place of publication:Loznica
- Pages:330
- Dimensions:13x21 cm
- Script:Cyrillic script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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