Are you sure? Jacques Darras gave the 1989 Reith Lectures: Beyond the Tunnel of History on this kind of subject. He lauded the hodge-podge of the Grande Place against the sterility of the Place de la Concorde or Robespierre's Arras.
Modern Belgium was Palmerston's brainchild, if I remember correctly, cut to suit his purposes. The royalty was imported, and the lands cobbled together to secure Britain a beachhead - not a living nation. No wonder the suit fits poorly.
Add the economic shift: Waloon coal yielded to Flamish trade as the world became global.
Kathleen Wallace is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She works on ethics and metaphysics of personal identity and is the author of The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity (2019). Her book on network self questions the very concept of "identity" and proposes a "network self process" - a paradigm I'd gladly adopt.
Have you read "The phone box at the edge of the world" by Laura Imai Messina? The author is originally Italian, graduated in Tokyo, and has now written a book on the survivors of the Fukushima tsunami. The main character is kami.
Are you sure? Jacques Darras gave the 1989 Reith Lectures: Beyond the Tunnel of History on this kind of subject. He lauded the hodge-podge of the Grande Place against the sterility of the Place de la Concorde or Robespierre's Arras.
Modern Belgium was Palmerston's brainchild, if I remember correctly, cut to suit his purposes. The royalty was imported, and the lands cobbled together to secure Britain a beachhead - not a living nation. No wonder the suit fits poorly.
Add the economic shift: Waloon coal yielded to Flamish trade as the world became global.
many a nation lack an antique sense of self. It is still possible to construct a shared sense of identity.
Kathleen Wallace is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She works on ethics and metaphysics of personal identity and is the author of The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity (2019). Her book on network self questions the very concept of "identity" and proposes a "network self process" - a paradigm I'd gladly adopt.
Sure but this sense waxes and wanes, or can be and remain unconscious (the US has never acknowledged or dealt with its plantation origins).
This cracked me “ somewhat abusive sounding Kunst-Wet.“😀
And great to hear that for all the talk about India being a functional anarchy - still manage to rise above much larger differences!
And I hope desperately that we continue to rise above the differences going forward.
I simply HAd to share this nugget on this thread....https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57315748 yet another reason for Belgium to be recognized ;)
Have you read "The phone box at the edge of the world" by Laura Imai Messina? The author is originally Italian, graduated in Tokyo, and has now written a book on the survivors of the Fukushima tsunami. The main character is kami.