Dieses Buch, im Original "Discours sur le bonheur", ist zwar das Hauptwerk La Mettries, wurde aber bis heute selbst von Spezialisten für die französische Aufklärung nur selten zur Kenntnis genommen -- eine Folge der o.g. (s. Text zu La Mettrie: Der Mensch als Maschine) Stereotypisierung. La Mettr[...]

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Poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, musician, and painter, Rabindranath Tagore was one of the foremost creative minds of India. This illustrated biography covers all the important phases of his life from his childhood years, to growing up in the Tagore household, to a perceptive account [...]

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's outlput and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. it also represents a reconsidera[...]

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