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Voltaire's Revolution

Author : G.K. Noyer
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633880397
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Revolution written by G.K. Noyer and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of religious fanaticism and oppressive orthodoxy had a telling effect on Western history, inspiring several leading founders of America's new laws. This is the first English translation of many of his key texts from his famous pamphlet war for tolerance, written from 1750 to 1768, originally published under pseudonyms to avoid imprisonment and to educate the average citizen. Included are “The Sermon of Rabbi Akib” (a searing attack on anti-Semitism), “Prayer to God” (from the famous Treatise on Tolerance), the hugely popular “Catechism of the Honest Man,” "The Dinner at Count Boulainvillier's," and other witty, sometimes acerbic pieces that point out the errors in the Bible, the corruption of the clergy, and the religiously-inspired persecutions, both of his day and across the ages. Many of these pamphlets were burned in a losing battle by the authorities. With a lengthy introduction and copious notes by the editor and translator, plus an appendix including first-hand accounts of the battle by noted mathematician and French revolutionary Condorcet, Frederick the Great, Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, and others, this excellent compilation will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone with an interest in human rights and freedom of thought.

Voltaire's Revolution

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633880389
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Revolution written by Voltaire and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire, the pen name of Franpois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of religious fanaticism and oppressive orthodoxy had a telling effect on Western history, inspiring several leading founders of America's new laws. This is the first English translation of many of his key texts from his famous pamphlet war for tolerance, written from 1750 to 1768, originally published under pseudonyms to avoid imprisonment and to educate the average citizen. Included are oThe Sermon of Rabbi Akibo (a searing attack on anti-Semitism),aaoPrayer to Godo (from the famousaTreatise on Tolerance), the hugely popular oCatechism of the Honest Man,o "The Dinner at Count Boulainvillier's," and other witty, sometimes acerbic pieces that point out the errors in the Bible, the corruption of the clergy, and the religiously-inspired persecutions, both of his day and across the ages. Many of these pamphlets were burned in a losing battle by the authorities. With a lengthy introduction and copious notes by the editor and translator, plus an appendix including first-hand accounts of the battle by noted mathematician and French revolutionary Condorcet, Frederick the Great, Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, and others, this excellent compilation will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone with an interest in human rights and freedom of thought.

The Darnton Debate

Author : Voltaire Foundation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Darnton Debate written by Voltaire Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Professor Robert Darnton aroused the interest of all Enlightenment scholars with the publication of 'The High Enlightenment and the low-life literature in pre-revolutionary France' in 1971, he has been in the forefront of debate about that period and the French Revolution which followed it. His work has long been an indispensable study for all those who ponder on the nature and evolution of these great movements. By the mid 1990s, however, it was apparent that Darnton's far-reaching conclusions on the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Revolution, together with his historical accounts of printed works and the mentalités of the eighteenth century, merited a comprehensive debate on his whole uvre. The present collection sparks off that debate. The contributors to this volume were invited freely to address any particular aspect of Robert Darnton's researches or to discuss the whole trust of his thinking about the past. Darnton readily agreed to this proposal, encouraging the editor to send invitations to long-standing critics just as much as to more sympathetic readers. The essays collected here respond to the original request, in diverse ways. Taking up a whole spectrum of positions about Darnton's work, they attempt an answer based on deep reflection or assiduous source-research or both. In a coda to the volume Robert Darnton responds robustly to the various readings of his work. In places he seeks to rescue it from what he considers to be false interpretations and to set the record straight. But his essay is not just a rebuttal. It moves the debate on, bringing new insights and information not previously published. His conclusion are as flexible open-ended as one could wish, and in line with which they have been richly plumbed in his writings. The threads running through the various essays are drawn together by a comprehensive index of eighteenth-century persons and writings.

The French Revolution

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Apollo
ISBN 13 : 1788540085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution written by David Andress and published by Apollo. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has dominated our view of the revolutionary period. History has paid more attention to Robespierre, Danton and Bonaparte than it has to the millions of French peasants who were the first to rise up in 1789, and the most ardent in defending changes in land ownership and political rights. 'Those furthest from the center rarely get their fair share of the light', Andress writes, and the peasants were patronized, reviled and often persecuted by urban elites for not following their lead. Andress's book reveals a rural world of conscious, hard-working people and their struggles to defend their ways of life and improve the lives of their children and communities.

Voltaire and Reform in the Light of the French Revolution

Author : Renée Waldinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voltaire and Reform in the Light of the French Revolution written by Renée Waldinger and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Industrial Evolution

Author : Mick Fish
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780946719464
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Industrial Evolution written by Mick Fish and published by SAF Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garbage collection, drum machines, big business, male mascara, militant unions and drugs. The ultimate eighties cocktail.

The Philosophical Dictionary

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

David, Voltaire, "Brutus", and the French Revolution

Author : Robert L. Herbert
Publisher : Lane, Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book David, Voltaire, "Brutus", and the French Revolution written by Robert L. Herbert and published by Lane, Allen. This book was released on 1972 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revolutionary Ideas

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849993
Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Ideas written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.

Revolution in Science

Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674767782
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Science written by I. Bernard Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea.

Candide

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681959526
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

Voltaire

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404204232
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of the French philosopher, discussing his literary and philosophical writings, his tumultuous relationships with some of the rulers and thinkers of his day, and his lasting influence on French culture.

Philosophical Letters

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143163
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Letters written by Voltaire and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.

Voltaire's Bastards

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718962
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that blind faith in reason has resulted in problems in every phase of social life, suggests reason is an administrative method rather than a moral force, and proposes some solutions.

A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution

Author : François Furet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674177284
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution written by François Furet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to provoke a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume presents the research of a wide range of international scholars into those questions. 58 color illustrations, 10 halftones.

The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

Author : Cecilia Feilla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016300
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution written by Cecilia Feilla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.

Before Voltaire

Author : J.B. Shank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022650932X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Before Voltaire written by J.B. Shank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that grew from French culture in general. Before Voltaire explores how Newton’s ideas made their way not just through the realm of French science, but into the larger world of society and culture of which Principia was an intertwined part. Shank also details a history of the beginnings of calculus-based mathematical physics that integrates it into the larger intellectual currents in France at the time, including the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns, the emergence of wider audiences for science, and the role of the newly reorganized Royal Academy of Sciences. The resulting book offers an unprecedented cultural history of one the most important and influential elements of Enlightenment science.