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Editor’s Note:
The following translation from Carl Schmitt appears online for the first time in commemoration of Schmitt’s birth on July 11, 1888. The translation originally appeared in Carl Schmitt, Four Essays, 1931–1938, ed. and trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1999). Read more …
Caspar David Friedrich, "The Sea of Ice," 1823–1824
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Eighteen
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Fourteen
Portuguese, Spaniards, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Englishmen fought one another for the division of the new Earth. The means, though, were not exclusively military; the struggle also entails diplomatic negotiations and suits for the best legal title.
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Ten
What is a spatial revolution?
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Eight
The idea of world history held by English monarchs, whether they were Queen Elizabeth or the Stuarts James I and Charles I, as well as the English statesmen of their times, did not differ from that of most of their contemporaries. Read more …
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Six
This period of new beginnings coincides with an important technological achievement. In that too, the Dutch were in the forefront. Read more …
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Four
In his book, Comparative General Geography (Vergleichende Allgemeine Erdkunde) of 1845, Ernst Kapp, a German thinker and geographer, influenced by Hegel’s world-encompassing ideas, chose water as a criterion for marking the great stages in the evolution of empires. He came out with three evolutionary stages, three acts of a great drama.
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William Blake, "Behemoth and Leviathan," 1825
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As told to my daughter Anima
One
Man is a terrestrial, an earthling. He lives, moves and walks on the firmly-grounded Earth. It is his standpoint and his base. He derives his points of view from it, which is also to say that his impressions are determined by it and his world outlook is conditioned by it.
