Alice’s Jar An Essay-Review on Three Recent Works on Ruins
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Jul 31, 2025
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Essay-review on a series of books published in recent years, all of which share a clear common core: ruins (Schnapp, Une histoire universelle des ruines. Des origines aux Lumières, 2020; it. transl. Storia universale delle rovine. Dalle origini all'età dei Lumi, 2023; Stewart, The Ruins Lesson. Meaning and Material in Western Culture, 2020; Marcheschi, Storie naturali delle rovine. Forme e oggetti del tempo nella Francia dei philosophes, 2023)
Keywords: Ruins, Enlightenment, Materiality of Remains, Displacement, Universal History
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