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1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0520228197
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0520944445
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1282361031
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9780520228191
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9780520944442
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9781282361034
Inhalt:
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence
Inhalt:
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Not Empty Silence; 2. Taking One's Distance; 3. Confidence Games; 4. The Government of Designs; 5. The Writing on the Walls; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-271) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
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ISBN 9780520228191
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520228197
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Snyder, Jon R Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe CA : University of California Press, ©2009 ISBN 9780520228191
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Englisch
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