David Gress
Auteur de From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Œuvres de David Gress
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Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Gress, David Richard
- Date de naissance
- 1953-01-29
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Denmark
- Lieu de naissance
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lieux de résidence
- Copenhagen, Denmark
England, UK
USA - Professions
- historian
- Relations
- Lewis, R. W. B. (father)
Gress, Elsa (mother) - Organisations
- Hoover Institution
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 133
- Popularité
- #152,660
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Langues
- 1
Most of Gress' sources are European. In weaving together the work of scholars and writers not typically called upon in the American academy (Gress is Danish), he brings to light a range of interpretations and intentions that read like a master class in the development of historical understanding. Written in the midst of the reexamination and critique of Western identity that followed the end of the Cold War, From Plato to NATO anticipates the revitalization of historical scholarship in the new millennium, on themes ranging from periodization and Medieval Studies to reassessment of the skeptical Enlightenment (Montesquieu, Hume) and the effects of ideology on scholarship.… (plus d'informations)