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Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191512761
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction written by Nicholas Cronk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, Cronk examines the nature of Voltaire's literary celebrity, demonstrating the extent to which his work was reactive and practical, and therefore made sense within the broader context of the debates to which he responded. The most famous living author in Europe in the 18th century, Cronk emphasises Voltaire's skills of 'performance' as a writer and his continued relevance today. He concludes by looking not only at Voltaire's impact in literature and philosophy, but also his influence on French political values and modern French politics. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire

Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982757X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire written by Nicholas Cronk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings. The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources. The essays demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today.

Zola

Author : Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000842681
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Zola written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the figure of the public intellectual through the work of Émile Zola in the Dreyfus affair. It analyzes Zola’s famous letter “J’Accuse” supporting Alfred Dreyfus and its philosophical and political consequences for the intellectual world, including Indian public intellectuals. The volume is an examination of the critical role that can be played by public intellectuals today by referring to the “J’Accuse” model and a homage to the ideal of living decently and truthfully through the exercise of critical reason and moral excellence. Accessible and comprehensive, the book will be essential reading for students of philosophy and critical reasoning. It will be of interest to general readers as well.

Voltaire's Correspondence

Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108856632
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Correspondence written by Nicholas Cronk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses significant interpretative challenges to the critic and reader alike. Considered individually, the letters present a series of complex, subtle, and playful literary performances; taken together, they constitute a formidable, and even forbidding, ensemble. How can modern readers even attempt to understand such an imposing work? This Element addresses this question through the use of digital reading methods and resources that enhance our understanding of this complex literary object and its relationship to Voltaire's more canonical literary output, and indeed to the Enlightenment world at large. Nicholas Cronk and Glenn Roe provide scholars and students with new pathways into this particular corpus, using tools and approaches that can then be applied to correspondences and life-writing texts in all languages and periods.

Voltaire Historiographer

Author : Síofra Pierse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire Historiographer written by Síofra Pierse and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Moore

Author : Mary Pierse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804770
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book George Moore written by Mary Pierse and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) was a very significant and often controversial figure on the literary stages of Paris, London and Dublin at a key cultural moment. Between 1880 and 1931, his creative involvements included spells with literary theatres in London and Dublin, jousts with the daring and repression of the fin de siècle, and a hail-and-farewell to Yeats and the Irish Revival. This collection of essays offers fresh insights into diverse elements of his œuvre and reflects some of the wide variety in Moore’s literary innovations, influences and legacy. Contributors note his pioneering contributions to the short story, his penetrating insights into Greek classical literature, his avant-garde feminism and egalitarianism, and – what may surprise 21st-century readers of biblical-theme blockbusters - his sensitive but contentious novelistic treatment of the historical Jesus. In this volume, there are studies of sophisticated composition, and fresh approaches to textual analysis. The multiple Moore talents are scrutinised, myths are dispelled and new evidence is uncovered for historic linkages. George Moore’s anticipation of Freudian psychological insights and his engagement with Darwinian theses are but two of his close involvements with key nineteenth-century figures. Manet, Degas, Parnell, Kant, Maupassant, Gladstone, Zola, Marx and Woolf must feature on the list of names that are inseparable from Moore’s life and work. Yeats and Joyce also loom large and their under-acknowledged indebtedness to Moore poses difficult questions for literary history. While Moore’s own debt to French artistic influences, English models, and Irish heritage has long been recognised, perceptions of Moore’s writing from outside the Anglophone world highlight issues that demand further consideration. This multi-faceted author is well-served by these new studies that, in turn, suggest additional avenues yet to be explored.

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107045002
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Pragmatic Enlightenment written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the political and moral thought of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these thinkers exemplify a particularly attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194329
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment written by Daniel Brewer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. Each essay presents a concise view of an important aspect of the French Enlightenment, discussing its defining characteristics, internal dynamics and historical transformations. The Companion discusses the most influential reinterpretations of the Enlightenment that have taken place during the last two decades, reinterpretations that both reflect and have contributed to important re-evaluations of received ideas about the Enlightenment and the early modern period more generally.

What Are Jews For?

Author : Adam Sutcliffe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691271275
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What Are Jews For? written by Adam Sutcliffe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For what purpose in the world were the Jews singled out as God's 'chosen people'? What Are Jews For? explores the history of western thinking on the historical purpose of the Jewish people, starting with ancient and medieval foundations but focusing on the period from 1600 to the present. In both Judaism and Christianity the Jews have long been accorded a crucial role at the end of history, when they will the world into an transformed era of unity and harmony in which all human divisions will be overcome. Since the seventeenth century this messianic conception of historical purpose has been repeatedly reconfigured in new forms. From the political theology of the early modern era and the universalist aspirations of Enlightenment philosophy, to almost all the key domains of modern thought - social, economic, nationalist, radical, assimilationist, satirical, psychoanalytical, religious and literary - the Jews have retained a close association with the positive transformation of the world. Across the past four centuries the 'Jewish Purpose Question' has been central to the attempts of both Jews and non-Jews to make sense of cultural particularity in relation to a wider vision of collective purpose in history. The deep and intricate layering of this question demands careful attention, as it remains extremely resonant in contemporary global politics and culture: polarized universalistic and particularistic conceptions of Jewish purpose have become emblematic of the most fundamental divisions over the meaning of peoplehood and collective purpose for all of us"--

Demystifying Brahminism and Re-Inventing Hinduism

Author : Satya Shri
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1946515566
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Demystifying Brahminism and Re-Inventing Hinduism written by Satya Shri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing more miserable than to feel that emancipation is in the air and yet suffer the slavery of a mistaken idea. The author seeks to re-invent Hinduism by bringing to the fore its most fundamental postulates as: 1. Worship of the monotheistic formless Brahm. 2. God-realisation through Nishkam Sewa (selfless service). 3. Social equality and brotherhood (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). 4. Self-realisation through Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga. 5. Salvation through worldly life of Purushaarth (Dharm, Arth, Kaam, Moksha). 'EK Samaj' repudiates the following attributes as excrescences and repugnant to the faith: 1. Mixing philosophy and religion made Hinduism an unorganised religion. 2. Worshipping numerous deities and limiting religious service to mere darshan of the idols fragmented Hinduism. 3. Hereditary priesthood, as permanent intermediaries for communion with God, polluted the religion. 4. Occupational ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’ camouflaged iniquitous social divisions. 5. Individual instead of congregational worship smothered Hindu brotherhood. 6. Pretensions of attaining Siddhis through ‘meditation and penances’ eulogised. 7. Escapism in worldly renunciation honoured. 8. Fatalist karma theory made Hindus pessimistic and other-worldly. 9. Transmigration, reincarnation, 84-lakh births used as props for gradation of castes. 10. Acceptance of Ahimsa made Hindus a doormat for the ruthless barbarians. 11. Karma kand and Mantra, Tantra, Yantra etc. justified as the sole religious expressions. 12. Lack of proselytisation prevented Hinduism from becoming a world religion. 13. Devdasi tradition made temples the venues of entertainment and recreation.

CLAT New Pattern Passage Based Question Bank with Previous Year Questions (2020 - 2024) 4th Edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 8119181573
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book CLAT New Pattern Passage Based Question Bank with Previous Year Questions (2020 - 2024) 4th Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated 4th edition of the book CLAT New Pattern Passage Based Question Bank is a unique book prepared for the new pattern CLAT Exam. # The book contains the 2020 - 24 Look-alike newly created questions, which will help all aspirants to crack the CLAT Exam. # The book also contains the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 Solved Questions along with the Sample Passage Questions released by NLU. # The book provides section-wise questions along with detailed solutions for the 5 sections.

Voltaire comic dramatist

Author : Russell Goulbourne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire comic dramatist written by Russell Goulbourne and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No two comedies of Voltaire are alike: the breadth and diversity of his comic dramaturgy in terms of form, technique, theme, characterisation and tone, are revealed in this first critical analysis and systematic reassessment of Voltaire's eighteen comedies in their contemporary theatrical, literary and intellectual contexts. This study also exposes the fundamental unity of Voltaire's comic theatre, which lies in the plays' status as innovative, experimental works written in creative dialogue with, and fruitful opposition to, the contemporary trend towards serious, sentimental comedy. Voltaire wrote his comedies over more than forty years (1725-1769), when comedy was undergoing significant redefinition as a genre. Typically dismissed as un-dramatic, sentimental, overtly didactic and so of limited interest today, his comedies emerge from this study as a series of vigorous explorations in the many possibilities of the comic genre. Voltaire wrote with the example of Molière and the seventeenth-century comic tradition constantly in mind, but at the same time he diverged from that tradition in pioneering ways, constantly testing the limits of generic convention and audience expectation. In demonstrating the blend of tradition and innovation at the heart of Voltaire's aesthetics of comic drama, this book contributes to a remapping of the history of eighteenth-century French comedy. It also leads to a new understanding of Voltaire's comic aesthetics more broadly: his comedies are a substantial, complex and vital part of his literary career, and studying them helps us to revise our view of the author of satirical contes, the dry wit whose distinctive literary mode can appear to be destructive irony. Viewed in the light of his comic theatre, the familiar Voltaire wears a significantly different expression.

Readers in a Revolution

Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009200844
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Readers in a Revolution written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.

CLAT New Pattern Passage Based Question Bank

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Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 939048619X
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 8119181514
Total Pages : 378 pages
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The Oxford History of Historical Writing: 1800-1945

Author : Daniel R. Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199533091
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Historical Writing: 1800-1945 written by Daniel R. Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix

Author : Gillian Pink
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835537642
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix written by Gillian Pink and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk has made to our understanding of the Enlightenment. As director of the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation, he has played a decisive role in eighteenth-century studies. In particular he has shaped our knowledge of Voltaire as a writer, celebrity and era-defining figure whose influence has continued to be felt through the centuries. Comprising essays by a host of internationally eminent scholars, this volume is a fitting tribute to the esteem and affection in which Nicholas Cronk is held as a colleague, teacher and mentor. These sixteen essays reflect his varied research interests, exploring questions central to the eighteenth century, such as the writing process, justice, revolution, as well as the legacy of the Enlightenment, and focussing on the central figure in Nicholas Cronk’s research: Voltaire. In sections devoted to Voltaire’s writing practices, to his involvement in political, literary and religious polemics, and finally to his legacy, the essays build on Nicholas Cronk’s scholarship and editorial achievements, opening up a new chapter in research on Voltaire. This volume is complemented by an online collection of essays which speak to other topics central to Nicholas Cronk’s interests, such as authorial identities, correspondence and aesthetics. Visit the MLO site for the other half of this festschrift project, https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/lecriture-nicholas-cronk