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Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 224 pages."Friendship in times of upheaval: A look at Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondence from different perspectives Rahel Levin Varnhagen, one of the great writers and famous salonière of the 19th century, dealt with the changes of her time in numerous correspondence - a time of upheaval between French Revolution and Congress of Vienna, restoration and new beginnings, in which everything had to be rethought. It's about a woman who didn't want to leave thinking about political and theoretical questions to men. It's about a Jewish woman who soon realized that the path to modernity was threatened with completely new inequalities and exclusions. The essays collected here show that all the questions that bothered Varnhagen two hundred years ago are still important today - otherwise their correspondence would not still find a large readership today. Above all, thinking… Leer más
