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Author : Gordon B. Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Significance of Diderot's Essai Sur Le Merite Et la Vertu written by Gordon B. Walters and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew H. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944290
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Diderot's Part written by Andrew H. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally. In Western Europe during the 1750s, the human body was reconceptualized as physiologists began to emphasize the connections, communication, and relationships among relatively autonomous somatic parts and an animated whole. This new conceptualization was part of a larger philosophical and epistemological shift in the relationship of part to whole, as discovered in that of bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic. Starting from Diderot's concept of the body as elaborated from the physiological research and speculation of contemporaries such as Haller and Bordeu, the author investigates how the logic of an unstable relationship of part to whole animates much of Diderot's writing in genres ranging from art criticism to theatre to philosophy of science. In particular, Clark examines the musical figure of dissonance, a figure used by Diderot himself, as a useful theoretical model to give insight into these complex relations. This study brings a fresh approach to the classic question of whether Diderot's work represents a consistent point of view or a series of ruptures and changes of position.
Author : Otis Fellows
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039390
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by Otis Fellows and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887372
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Citizens without Sovereignty written by Daniel Gordon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an authoritarian regime. A penetrating critique of those who exaggerate either the radicalism of the Enlightenment or the hegemony of the absolutist state, his book documents the invention of an ethos that was neither democratic nor absolutist, an ethos that idealized communication and private life. The key to this ethos was "sociability," and Gordon offers the first detailed study of the language and ideas that gave this concept its meaning in the Old Regime. Citizens without Sovereignty provides a wealth of information about the origins and usage of key words, such as société and sociabilité, in French thought. From semantic fields of meaning, Gordon goes on to consider institutional fields of action. Focusing on the ubiquitous idea of "society" as a depoliticized sphere of equality, virtue, and aesthetic cultivation, he marks out the philosophical space that lies between the idea of democracy and the idea of the royal police state. Within this space, Gordon reveals the channels of creative action that are open to citizens without sovereignty--citizens who have no right to self-government. His work is thus a contribution to general historical sociology as well as French intellectual history. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Stefanie Buchenau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350142948
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment written by Stefanie Buchenau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors. With contributions from a team of internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger, Michael Forster, Céline Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Günter Zöller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.
Author : Jerome Schwartz
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600034777
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Diderot and Montaigne : the "Essais" and the Shaping of Diderot's Humanism written by Jerome Schwartz and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1966 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Martyn Lloyd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319971964
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context written by Henry Martyn Lloyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing the progressive tradition of French Enlightenment philosophy. Sade aspired to be a philosophe. This book uses intellectual history and the history of philosophy to reconstruct Sade’s philosophical ‘system’ and its historical context. Within the period’s discourse of sensibility Sade draws on the philosophical and the literary to form a relatively sophisticated ‘system’ which he deploys to critically engage with the two major strands of eighteenth-century ethical theory: the moral sense and natural law traditions. This work is of interest to: ‘Continental’ Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.
Author : Benjamin Okon MSP
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514484390
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Analysis of Virtue in Alasdair Macintyre and His View of “The Enlightenment Project” written by Benjamin Okon MSP and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacIntyre is greatly discontented with the nature of contemporary morality, which according to him has a form, i.e. what appears like morality, but lacks essential content. He argues that the most common feature of contemporary ethical discourse is that much of it is used to express individual preferences, which leads to disagreements among philosophers, and eventually results in debates that are interminable in character. MacIntyre attributes the cause of this situation to the activities of the enlightenment philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries who, in an attempt to find rational justification for morality repudiated those essential elements that define the essence of morality and give it its contents. Such elements include historical narrative, tradition, teleology, and divine law. In MacIntyres opinion, morality so constructed was destined for failure, since it was not founded on the true nature of the human person. The obvious consequences of this failure were the birth of diverse post-enlightenment ethical theories and a substantial change in the conception of virtue. In order to remedy this deplorable condition of contemporary ethics MacIntyre, along with other virtue ethicists, advocates a certain renaissance of ethical principles that are founded on the true nature of the human person, characterized by historical narrative, tradition, and teleology, all grounded on divine legislation. Morality thus reconstructed finds its fullest expression in the theory of human character traits, i.e. virtues. This is what has motivated MacIntyres construction of virtue theory, which has brought him into confrontation with the enlightenment philosophers. Our study and analysis of MacIntyres theory of virtue reveals that his account of virtue is inadequate. This inadequacy is what has motivated our own project of reconstructing MacIntyres theory of virtue in view of offering an account of virtue that is adequate. In this way our own project complements that of MacIntyre.
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087162X
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 1 written by Ira O. Wade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit modern. In the first volume he traces the transformation they brought about in religion, ethics, aesthetics, science, politics, economics, and self-knowledge. His analysis of works by Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau—including the Encyclopedic—defines their organic unity and clarifies contradictions that appear to threaten the coherence, consistency, and logical continuity of the esprit philosophique. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Richard A. Brooks
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C Supplement written by Richard A. Brooks and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library ... Reference Department ...: Books received from Jan. 1871 to Dec. 1880 written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871638
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2 written by Ira O. Wade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit moderne. The second volume probes the writings of Morelly, Helvetius, Holbach, Mably, and Condorcet as they reveal the transformation of the esprit philosophique into the esprit revolutionnaire. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ann Thomson
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600035859
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Discours Preliminaire written by Ann Thomson and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314101
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Essay written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author : Tili Boon Cuillé
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614174
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Divining Nature written by Tili Boon Cuillé and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuillé examines the representation of natural phenomena—whether harmonious or discordant—in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Staël. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the "spectacle of nature" in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the "sentiment of divinity." These "passions of the soul," traditionally associated with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that structured Diderot's Encyclopédie and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuillé reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion, and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade. This book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Author : Fayçal Falaky
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449895
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Social Contract, Masochist Contract written by Fayçal Falaky and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Theorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth century; like many materialists of the French Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected imperatives founded on metaphysical suppositions and viewed the senses as the only valid source of philosophical knowledge. In Social Contract, Masochist Contract, Fayçal Falaky demonstrates that what distinguishes Rousseau is that the foundational measure on which he bases his materialist philosophy is a sexual instinct endowed, paradoxically, with the same sublime, self-abnegating attributes historically associated with Christian, metaphysical desire. To understand the aesthetics of Rousseaus masochism is, Falaky argues, to understand how ideals of Christian morality and spiritual ennoblement survived the Enlightenment, and how God died, only to be repackaged in new fetishes. Whether it is the imperious mistress of his erotic fantasies, the Arcadian nature of his philosophical reveries, or the sublime Law designed to elevate the citizen from enslaving appetite, Rousseaus fetishes herald the new regulative Ideals of the modern secular state.
Author : Margaret Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Handbook of French Literature written by Margaret Foster and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
