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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi; Ottilie Mulzet (trans.)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history László F. Földényi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, his work reson ...Show more
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi; Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: World Republic of Letters (Yale) Ser.
In this collection of essays László F. Földényi considers the fallout from the end of religion and how the traditions of the Enlightenment have replaced neither the metaphysical completeness nor the comforting purpose of the previously held mythologies. Combining beautiful writing with empathy, imaginat ...Show more
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melan ...Show more
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