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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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The Business of the Artist

The business of the artist to create the best work of art possible. The ultimate judge, he judges are, of course, the clients for whose benefit it is made. Then there is the other approach, which is that the artist fundamentally is not a purveyor, but a voice speaking. And this is a very different view and springs from very different soil. The soil that springs from is really not french soil at all, but german soil. This brings me to the site contrasts with voltarity o wish te draw. A german, a thinker and a literary, an critic and historian, godfried herder,. who is the exact ty antithesis to the voltaire in the

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