This text is a slightly revised version of a course delivered around 1970 by the Argentine historian José Luis Romero (1909–1977), who was then at the pinnacle of his intellectual maturity. Shortly before, he had completed his book The Bourgeois...
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1. Mentalities Before entering into the study of bourgeois mentality, it is necessary to clarify some prior questions concerning the terms used, mentality and bourgeoisie, which in common usage carry diverse and imprecise meanings. One of the great achievements of...
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After this initial approach to the themes and concepts, we will now tackle the first of the two major sections of this study: the theory of the bourgeois mentality. For methodological, but also historical reasons, two aspects must be distinguished:...
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In each of the aspects of the bourgeois mentality that are analyzed—attitudes toward the problem of man, society, nature, and others—one observes the convergence of an initial basic attitude, the rationalization of those attitudes, and also a certain body of...
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A Abbo (a.k.a. Abbon de Saint-Germain-des-Prés), 86, 204 –Bella Parisiacaeurbis, 86n, 204n Abd Almûmin (a.k.a. Abd al-Mu’min), 229 Abd ar-Rahman II, 203 Abélard, Pierre, 169, 172n, 173, 174, 175n, 176, 177, 400, 413, 416, 458 –Historia Calamitatum, 172n, 173n, 174n, 175n –Epistolae, 176n Abraham, 341 Abulfeda,...
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