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  • Pope Pius IX and thinkers such as Ernest Renan, who were moving the opposite way.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Pope Pius IX and thinkers such as Ernest Renan, who were moving the opposite way.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • During the second half of the nineteenth century and the fist decades of the twentieth, Vives was read and studied by philosophers such as Ernest Renan (1823 “ 1892), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828 “ 1875),

    Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives] Casini, Lorenzo 2009

  • Ernest Renan, a philologist and Hebrew scholar, drew sharp distinctions between Semitic and Aryan languages and peoples.

    Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011

  • Ernest Renan, a philologist and Hebrew scholar, drew sharp distinctions between Semitic and Aryan languages and peoples.

    Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011

  • Before I begin, a word to les amis and the francophiles who like their history sanitized, perhaps because they take too literally writer Ernest Renan's injunction that forgetting a few pages of history is essential to national cohesion: get over it.

    The 10 Best French Villains 2011

  • The ideas of early and enlightened Islamic reformists such as Seyed Jamal Asad Abadi/Afghani see his letter to Ernest Renan soon degenerated into fundamentalism, while the tradition of military style Arab nationalism, founded by Nasser and "Free Officers," degenerated into repressive regimes like those of Saddam in Iraq, Omar Bashir in Sudan, Saleh in Yemen and Hafez al Assad in Syria.

    Amir Madani: The Continuing Protests in Arab Countries -- The Case of Syria Amir Madani 2011

  • "Getting its history wrong," wrote Ernest Renan, "is part of being a nation."

    Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009

  • Interest in Renaissance university philosophy has been rekindled by Ernest Renan who investigated several philosophers teaching at Padua

    Assorted Moments of Moral Ambiguity from the World of Gay Porn 2009

  • In a lecture, famous in the annals of social science, the nineteenth-century French philosopher Ernest Renan argued that nations are formed by the experience of common suffering a “grand solidarity constituted by the sentiment of sacrifices” and the willingness of individuals to pledge allegiance to the group in an “everyday plebiscite.”

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

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