On July 10 1871, in Paris, one of the greatest French writers was born: his name was Marcel Proust and he was for sure a son of his time, an example of the cultural and literary trends of his time, between the end of the XIX and the XX centuries, the age of the crisis…
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William James: how an American gave so much to European culture between XIX and XX century
On 11 January 1842 in New York, the American philosopher and psychologist William James was born: he came from an already talented family, especially his brother, Henry James, doomed to become a giant of the American Literature. James is not one of the main thinkers of the world but he contributed consistently to that historical…
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