Sublime

piquant:

Ma formation intellectuelle peut être qualifiée de « libérale ». J’ai plongé dans Kant plus facilement que dans Hegel. Je considère Montaigne et non Marx comme ma référence absolue. J’ai lu Voltaire avec plus d’enthousiasme que Rousseau.

Jeff,

Even Marx, a profound critic of the new system, was in awe when he wrote in 1848: The bourgeoisie … has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations an

For Marx, however, these new industrial feats were just the tip of the iceberg. He believed that such changes in technology, production and social life, would come to form the basis of an entirely new society. This reflected his view of history as unfolding through an ensemble of fields encompassing not only technology, but also politics and our id

Then we found ourselves much in the position of the suffragette trying to get to the Parliament buildings through a triple cordon of London police.