During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible ... slaveholders developed a paternalistic self-image and created a literature of racial superiority which stressed caring for ...

A strong case can be made that Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which was published in November 1924, marked the end of an era when a work of literature could claim ... Settembrini’s Enlightenment ...

Until the modern age they have remained largely self-contained ... even though many of its bricks were plundered during the construction of a railway in the 19th century. Archaeological ...