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The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition

Isaiah Berlin

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Voltaire's Story of Culture

Voltaire is plainly bored on the subject himself. The least amusing parts are the parts where he forces himself into giving a certain amount of official information according to this programme. But if you actually look at his writings, from time to time, he does give you a few fragmentary bits of information on these topics - but it's unsystematic. And his story of culture sipors. It is a story is a kind of muse imaginair, rather in the monro sense f the word, of stringing together the few bits i in fo happy moments when humanity came of age athens, rome and florence. These were proud hours in the history of mankind. All

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