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The Daguerreotype Craze, and More

The Daguerreotype Craze, and More

May 16, 2023
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The daguerreotype craze began in 1839. A few silvery inches of a stranger's face gave new meaning to the idea of love at first sight... more »

The American idea of continental philosophers as speculative, irrational mystics dates to the 1953 International Congress of Philosophy, in Brussels... more »

An extreme figure even in decadent fin-de-siècle Paris, 

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