Title: Cultural visions : essays in the history of culture /
Authors: Gold, Penny Schine.; Sax, Benjamin C., 1950-2019
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Weintraub, Karl Joachim,; Culture Study and teaching; History Philosophy; History Philosophy Essays.; Culture Study and teaching Essays.
Contents: Truth and Meaning in Cultural History / Benjamin C. Sax -- Varieties of Biography during the Italian Renaissance: Individuality and Beyond / James Michael Weiss -- Autobiography and American Identity: Another Look at Benjamin Franklin / Amy Apfel Kass -- The Autobiographer in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Milton Eder -- Thucydides' Argument with the Facts / James Redfield -- "An Acute and Practiced Eye": Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, and the Problem of Cultural History / Benjamin C. Sax -- Art History and Ideology: Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski / Margaret Olin -- Caesar Ludens: Emperor Maximilian I and the Waning Middle Ages / Larry Silver -- Spain as Castile: The Making of a National Culture / E. Inman Fox -- Thomas Mann and World War I: Germanness under Siege / Alcyone Scott -- The Dialectics of Reward and Punishment in Philo of Alexandria / Alan Mendelson -- O Sancte Socrate, Ora pro Nobis: Erasmus on the Problem of Athens and Jerusalem / Katy O'Brien Weintraub -- Jean Bodin, Roman Law, and the Renaissance Conception of the Past / Zachary Sayre Schiffman -- Making the Bible Modern: Translating Biblical Culture for Jewish American Children in the Early Twentieth Century / Penny Schine Gold.