5.0580 Sidney Bookplate; Deconstructing Europe (2/44)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:17:48 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0580. Monday, 13 Jan 1992.
(1) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 17:00 CST (19 lines)
From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends
(2) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 19:41:12 -0500 (25 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: "Deconstructing Europe"
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 17:00 CST
From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends (2/79)
Could you treat us to a brief description of the Sidney bookplate, or other
library marks?
It is probably not worth following up, but both the Arsenal (a branch of the
BN) and the BN (Paris) have special cats. (card form) of sales catalogues.
(Correction: I THINK the BN has one; the fonds Q-10 [I think it is] has
little pre-1800, or at least the person who compiled the ledger -- in this
case -- only lists a few pre-1800, and mostly post-1800).
I write probably not worth following up because I think there would be
not very much non-French material. But who knows...
--Bob Dawson
UTx-Austin
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 19:41:12 -0500
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: "Deconstructing Europe"
Has anyone read J.G.A. Pocock's "Deconstructing Europe" in the mid-December
_London Review of Books_? A long, arduous, and totally brilliant analysis,
from the point of view of one of New Zealand's most distinguished
intellectuals, of the effect of the globalization of the market economy on
our concepts of self and society. Worth every minute you'll spend
reading it -- that is, if you are concerned about the problem of moral agency
in a post-modern world which finds such concepts somewhat inconvenient.
Unlike many of the extreme conservative critics of post-modernism,
Pocock is not motivated by nostalgia or institutional jealousy; he
simply feels himself at the end of a historical era whose values and
concerns he prizes deeply (his central image is that of Hegel's Owl of
Minerva, which flies only when civilizations have come to their end), and
his essay contemplates, in an elegaic mode, what a future with quite different
values and concerns may bring. He is not optimistic.
Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca>