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  • Romanticism and the Rediscovery of Religion
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The history of modernity is often told as a story of separation. According to one influential narrative, the advance of science, the triumph of rational inquiry, and the emergence of secular political institutions gradually displaced the authority of religion from the center of Western life. The Enlightenment, in this account, inaugurated a new age in which reason replaced reve...
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  • Schleiermacher and Religion as Absolute Dependence
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Few figures have exercised as profound and enduring an influence on modern theology as Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher. Revered by some as the father of modern Protestant theology and criticized by others as the thinker who inaugurated a problematic turn toward religious subjectivity, Schleiermacher remains a central point of reference for any serious inquiry into the nat...
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  • The Fairy Tale (Märchen) as the Highest Reality in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    To the uninitiated observer of modern literary history, the fairy tale-or Märchen, as it was definitively conceptualized within the German cultural sphere-occupies a modest and strictly sequestered domain. It is routinely categorized as a charming relic of agrarian folklore, a pedagogical instrument for the moral instruction of children, or a harmless mechanism of escapist ente...
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  • Novalis and the Poeticization of the World
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Writing in the explosive intellectual pressure-cooker of Early German Romanticism (Frühromantik) centered in Jena, Novalis did not propose a reactionary flight into medieval nostalgia or a naive rejection of modern rationality. Instead, he articulated a radical, forward-looking epistemological and ontological program designed to restore qualitative depth to human experience: th...
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  • Intellectual Malaise, Culture, and Media Wars of France in the 1930s
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    In the autumn of 1931, the economic tremors that had shattered Wall Street two years prior finally breached the fiscal ramparts of the French Third Republic. For nearly two decades, French political elites had comforted themselves with the illusion of a unique national immunity, persuaded that the nation’s balanced equilibrium between industry and agriculture, alongside its sto...
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  • The Fall of France and the Rise of the Vichy Regime
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    In the early summer of 1940, the French Third Republic vanished not merely through the sheer momentum of an invading army, but through a profound, self-inflicted institutional collapse. Within six weeks, the nation possessing what was widely regarded as the most formidable land army in Western Europe suffered a military, political, and psychological catastrophe without preceden...
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  • The Decay and Fall of the French Third Republic (1930s-1940)
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    This volume systematically traces the trajectory of the French Third Republic tragic collapse over the course of the pivotal decade spanning from 1930 to 1940. By examining the intricate interplay between institutional design, economic dogma, ideological extremism, cultural despair, and strategic blindness, this book seeks to answer how a regime that had successfully weathered ...
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  • Twilight of the Victorian Era
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Historiography frequently privileges the grand epoch, the long century, or the dramatic rupture over the quiet turn of a calendar wheel. Yet, the isolation of a single calendar year offers a remarkably potent micro-historical prism through which the broader structural tectonic plates of an entire civilization can be observed in mid-shift. To freeze the temporal frame at the yea...
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    18,54 €

  • History of the Royal Society of London
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The history of the Royal Society of London is inseparable from the history of modern knowledge itself. To write about the Society is to trace the emergence of new ways of seeing, testing, debating, and circulating claims about the natural world. It is to follow the gradual construction of norms that shaped how people should behave when seeking truth, how they should disagree, a...
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  • The Emergence of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The emergence of scientific societies in the seventeenth century marked a profound transformation in the organization of knowledge, yet this development cannot be understood without first appreciating the intellectual world that preceded it. Before formal institutions such as the Royal Society or the Académie Royale des Sciences appeared, the pursuit of natural knowledge unfold...
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  • The Accademia dei Lincei and Its Visionary Beginnings in Italy
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The story of the Accademia dei Lincei begins in an Italy suspended between worlds. At the dawn of the seventeenth century, the peninsula was a mosaic of courts, principalities, and ecclesiastical territories, each with its own intellectual traditions and political anxieties. Humanism had reshaped scholarship, yet the older scholastic frameworks still dominated universities. The...
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  • The Nineteenth‑Century Industrialization as Cultural Event
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Industrialization in the nineteenth century has long been narrated as an economic and technological transformation, a shift in modes of production, a triumph of machinery, or a reorganization of labor. Yet these familiar narratives, while indispensable, capture only part of the story. What unfolded between roughly 1780 and 1914 was not merely a change in how goods were produced...
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  • Britain as Industrial Prototype
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Britain’s emergence as the world’s first industrial nation has long been treated as a historical fact, but far less attention has been given to the way Britain narrated that transformation-how it framed its own industrial ascent as a universal model, a civilizational template, and ultimately a justification for empire. This book begins from the premise that Britain did not simp...
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  • The Machine as Metaphor
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The history of ideas in the modern West can be read, in part, as a long meditation on the meaning of the machine. From the seventeenth century onward, the machine became more than a tool or a device; it became a conceptual instrument through which philosophers, scientists, political theorists, and artists sought to understand the world and humanity’s place within it. The machin...
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  • Oliver Twist
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    From its first serialized appearance in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1839, Oliver Twist has occupied a singular place in the Victorian imagination. It is at once a melodrama of urban criminality, a sentimental tale of endangered innocence, and a scathing indictment of the institutions charged with managing poverty in nineteenth‑century Britain. The novel’s enduring pow...
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  • Dickens, Conscience, and the Victorian Imagination
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    To approach Charles Dickens is to enter a world where the moral life is never abstract. It is lived in crowded streets, in cramped parlors, in countinghouses and courtrooms, in prisons both literal and psychological. His fiction insists that conscience is not a private whisper but a public force, shaped by the pressures of industrial modernity and the imaginative possibilities ...
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  • Charles Dickens and the Social Conscience
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Charles Dickens stands as one of the rare writers whose name alone evokes not only a literary style but a moral atmosphere, a way of looking at society that insists on seeing the invisible, hearing the unheard, and remembering the forgotten. To speak of Dickens is to speak of a writer who transformed fiction into a vehicle of ethical inquiry, who made storytelling a form of pub...
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  • The Old Curiosity Shop
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    The story of The Old Curiosity Shop has long occupied a paradoxical place in the landscape of Victorian literature. Few nineteenth‑century novels provoked such intense emotional response, and few have been so persistently mocked for the very sentiment that once made them beloved. To approach this novel today is to enter a contested emotional terrain, one shaped by the tears of ...
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  • The Literature of Industrial Modernity
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Industrial modernity announces itself not as a single event but as a profound reorientation of human experience, a transformation so extensive that it reshapes how societies imagine themselves and how individuals understand their place within the world. The nineteenth century becomes the crucible of this transformation, the moment when mechanization, urban expansion, new class ...
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  • Romanticism and the Critique of Mechanization
    Gabriel W. Campbell
    Romanticism emerged in Europe during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as one of the most ambitious intellectual and artistic revolts in modern history. It was not merely a literary movement, nor simply an aesthetic preference for sublime landscapes or expressive emotion. Romanticism constituted a profound reorientation of human consciousness, a counter‑moderni...
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