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Character Sensibilite Scoicability And Politics In Benjamin Constants Adolphe
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Book Synopsis Character, Sensibilité, Scoicability and Politics in Benjamin Constant's "Adolphe" by : K. Steven Vincent
Download or read book Character, Sensibilité, Scoicability and Politics in Benjamin Constant's "Adolphe" written by K. Steven Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism by : K. Steven Vincent
Download or read book Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism written by K. Steven Vincent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
Book Synopsis Love Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars by : Sharon Worley
Download or read book Love Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars written by Sharon Worley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to speak, which were written by major authors who inherited this Enlightenment bearing, responded to the emerging concepts of love found in novels and philosophical essays. Love among this Napoleonic coterie is unique because it demonstrates the reciprocal relationship between the love letter and the romantic novel. Germaine de Staël, Juiette Récamier, Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, Lady Emma Hamilton, Napoleon Bonaparte and his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, were the authors and recipients of some of the most passionate love letters of this period. They were also avid readers of the newly emerging genre of the romantic novel, and many of them were also authors of such works where they projected their personal romances onto the characterization of their fictional heroes and heroines. In addition, these authors had lived through the recent French Revolution and the Terror. Imprisoned during the Revolution, or branded as emigrés upon their return to Paris, their mature adult lives were spent in the shadows of the Napoleonic wars in which they shifted political loyalties as the specter of Napoleon’s powers grew from First Consul to Emperor of Europe. The looming threat of war ignited the depths of their passions and inspired their intellectual analysis of love, happiness and suicide. Their evolving concept of love was a romantic, all-consuming passion which gripped the lovers in fatal embraces. This book’s analysis of their love letters and romantic novels reveals the emerging political landscape of the period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant by : James Mitchell Lee
Download or read book Benjamin Constant written by James Mitchell Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom from Fear by : Alan S. Kahan
Download or read book Freedom from Fear written by Alan S. Kahan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new history of liberalism which argues that liberalism has been predicated on definite morality and should be viewed as an attempt to encompass both fear and hope. Liberalism, argues Alan Kahan, is the search for a society in which people need not be afraid. Freedom from fear is the most basic freedom. If we are afraid, we are not free. These insights, found in Montesquieu and Judith Shklar, are the foundation of liberalism. What liberals fear has changed over time (revolution, reaction, totalitarianism, religious fanaticism, poverty, and now populism) but the great majority of liberal thinkers have relied on three pillars to ward off their fears and to limit the concentrated power that causes fear: freedom, markets, and morals, or, to put it another way, politics, economics, and religion or morality. Most liberal thinkers emphasize one or two pillars more than another, but it is typical of liberalism down to the Second World War to rely on all three, although there were always minority voices who preferred to stand on only one leg. After WWII, "thin" procedural/market liberals, who wanted to strip any moral or religious basis or purpose from liberalism, dominated "thick" liberal moralists, who thought liberalism needed a moral basis and/or goal. It is the political contention of this book that liberalism is most convincing as program, language, and social analysis when it relies on all three pillars, and that the relative weakness of liberalism at the end of the twentieth century had much to do with neglect of the moral pillar of liberalism. Its historical contention is that for much of the past two centuries it did rely on all three pillars. But Kahan also argues that liberalism is not only a party of fear. It is also a party of hope, or the party of progress. Many of the contradictions typical of liberalism derive from the seemingly contradictory effort to encompass both hope and fear. If in case of conflict fear often trumps hope for liberals (loss aversion applies in politics as much as in economics), and utopia is subject to indefinite postponement, progress in personal autonomy and development has always been at the heart of liberalism. Liberals typically support their hopes on the same three pillars of freedom, markets, and morals which they use to ward off their fears. Nevertheless, in one respect those historians and political theorists who identify liberalism with laissez-faire economics are not wrong. It is characteristic of liberalism then that it bases its hopes not on the state but on civil society, which for liberals is the common source of a free politics, a free market, and of morals. Alan S. Kahan is Professor of History at the Université de Versailles. His previous books include Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls (Oxford 2015), Alexis de Tocqueville (Continuum Books) and Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Publishing, 2010)"--
Download or read book Historical Reflections written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Diversity written by Russell Jacoby and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant examination of a timely concept from one of the nation's great public intellectuals. Diversity. You've heard the term everywhere--in the news, in the universities, at the television awards shows. Maybe even in the corporate world, where diversity initiatives have become de rigueur. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our love affair with diversity with the fact that the world seems to be becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? With a lucid, straightforward prose that rises above the noise, one of America's greatest intellectual gadflies, Russell Jacoby, takes these questions squarely on. Discussing diversity (or lack thereof) in language, fashion, childhood experience, political structure, and the history of ideas, Jacoby offers in plain language a surprising and penetrating analysis of our cultural moment. In an age where our public thinkers seem to be jumping over one another to have the latest correct opinion, Jacoby offers a most dangerous, and liberating, injunction: to stop and think.
Book Synopsis A Passion for Democracy by : Tzvetan Todorov
Download or read book A Passion for Democracy written by Tzvetan Todorov and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Constant written by Dennis Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism by : Guy H. Dodge
Download or read book Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism written by Guy H. Dodge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first work in English to focus on Constant as a political theorist shows that his thinking was molded by the French Revolution of 1789 and by Napoleon's regime. Constant is identified as the first to recognize Bonapartism as a new form of despotism, arising from the theory of popular sovereignty, which is still the basis for modern Fascist and Communist regimes. His political thought is analyzed within the framework of his philosophy of history, law, ethics, and religion. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Book Synopsis Reinterpreting "Adolphe" by : Helena Rosenblatt
Download or read book Reinterpreting "Adolphe" written by Helena Rosenblatt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe" by : Ian W. Alexander
Download or read book Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe" written by Ian W. Alexander and published by London : Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etat des travaux récents.
Download or read book Constant: Adolphe written by Dennis Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently paradoxical developments of themes and situations from the opening chapters are traced in detail in a analysis that emphasizes the novel's intricate writing as well as its historical and intellectual significance.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant by : Elizabeth Wheeler Schermerhorn
Download or read book Benjamin Constant written by Elizabeth Wheeler Schermerhorn and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyse : Biographie de Constant.
Book Synopsis Adolphe and the Red Notebook by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book Adolphe and the Red Notebook written by Benjamin Constant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe" by : Ian Walsh Alexander
Download or read book Benjamin Constant: "Adolphe" written by Ian Walsh Alexander and published by London : Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1973 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etat des travaux récents.
Book Synopsis The Political Writings of Benjamin Constant by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book The Political Writings of Benjamin Constant written by Benjamin Constant and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: