Veils Toni Tortorella Genova Friedrich Schiller and the Future

Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom is much more than a conventional biography

Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume's philosophy gave rise to liberalism's unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination

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Veils Toni Tortorella Genova Friedrich Schiller and the FutureSomething of a historical event, this book combines loosely autobiographical texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. Savoir, by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to