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Product Description: Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology...read more
Hardcover:
9780226757834 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 15, 2011, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work.
Product Description: In Abyssinian poetry, the Âwaxâ is the obvious meaning, the Âgoldâ is the hidden meaning. In Wax and Gold, Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to seek answers to the following questions: What is the nature of the traditional culture of the dominant ethnic group, the Amhara, and what are its enduring values? What aspects of modern culture interest this society and by what means has it sought to institutionalize them? How has tradition both facilitated and hampered Ethiopian efforts to modernize? Enriched by the use of Ethiopian literature and by Levineâs deep knowledge of and affection for the society of which he writes, Wax and Gold is both a scholarly and a personal work...read more
Paperback:
9780226215440, titled "Wax & Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture" | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 24, 2014), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In Abyssinian poetry, the Âwaxâ is the obvious meaning, the Âgoldâ is the hidden meaning.
Hardcover:
9781412855020 | Transaction Pub, July 23, 2014, cover price $49.95
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