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Erasmus and Voltaire

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Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698896
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Erasmus and Voltaire written by Ricardo J. Quinones and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for change in his time and thus ranks among the masters of modern liberalism. Beginning with the continuities between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, award-winning scholar Ricardo J. Quinones joins Erasmus and Voltaire as voices of moderation and reason that remain capable of addressing the philosophical crises of twentieth-century thought. A companion piece to Dualisms, Quinones' 2007 book, Erasmus and Voltaire differs in method: where its predecessor looked to inveterate, unyielding differences, this new work looks to similarities. In delving beneath the obvious differences between these two intellectual giants, Quinones uncovers the great practical and spiritual vocations that unite them.

Candide

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Author : By Voltaire
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736801785
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Candide written by By Voltaire and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon; it is arguably taught more than any other work of French literature. It was listed as one of The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written.

Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L

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Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579580902
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L written by William M. Johnston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Voltaire's Bastards

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Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718938
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 2012-12-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.

Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity

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Author : Harvey Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002343
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity written by Harvey Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Mitchell’s book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire’s treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows how Voltaire’s nearly total antipathy to Judaism is best understood by stressing his self-regard as the author of an enlightened and rational universal history, which found Judaism’s memory of its past incoherent, and, in addition, failed to meet the criteria of objective history—a project in which he failed. Calling on an array of Jewish and non-Jewish figures to reveal how modern interpretations of Judaism may be traced to the core ideas of the Enlightenment, this book concludes that Voltaire paradoxically helped to foster the ambiguities and uncertainties of Judaism’s future.

Dualisms

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Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802097634
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dualisms written by Ricardo J. Quinones and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dualism is a motif that runs through literature of all genres and historical contexts, inspiring argumentation at the highest level and showing the formation of ideas in association as a creative exchange. It arises with special pertinence in western literature since the Renaissance and Reformation. In Dualisms, noted scholar Ricardo J. Quinones considers four major intellectual encounters: Erasmus and Luther, Voltaire and Rousseau, Turgenev and Dostoevsky, and Sartre and Camus. These four instances, Quinones argues, are important for what they are and what they represent: major intellectual contests that created the modern era and remain the 'agons' of our time. Through in-depth analysis, this study looks at the clarifications that emerged from four famous polemics. Discerning an 'itinerary of their encounters,' Quinones suggests a shared paradigm of development that is true for each of the examples of dualism. In all four cases, the two participants represented the vanguard of their time, and all of the debates started from shared intellectual positions until subsequent events revealed substantially different temperaments. It is the inescapable tension and connection between prior affinities and the discord of debate that continue to intrigue us. Dualisms is a tour-de-force, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy, theology, and literary criticism. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most famous intellectual debates in all of literature, and considers the implications that they continue to have for the study of the humanities in the modern world.

Erasmus

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Author : Nathan Ron
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030798607
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Erasmus written by Nathan Ron and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the “Other.” Should we consider Erasmus an involved or public intellectual alongside figures such as Machiavelli, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu? Was Erasmus really an independent intellectual? In Ron's estimation, Erasmus did not fully live up to his professed principles of Christian peace. Despite the anti-war preaching so eminent in his writings, he made no stand against the warlike and expansionist foreign policies of specific European kings of his era, and even praised the glory won by Francis I on the battlefield of Marignano (1515). Furthermore, in the face of Henry VIII’s execution of his beloved Thomas More and John Fisher, and the atrocities committed by the Spanish against indigenous peoples in the New World, Erasmus preferred self-censorship to expressions of protest or criticism and did not step forward to reproach kings of their misdeeds or crimes.

The Continental Reformation in Germany, France and Switzerland from the Birth of Luther to the Death of Calvin

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Author : Alfred Plummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Continental Reformation in Germany, France and Switzerland from the Birth of Luther to the Death of Calvin written by Alfred Plummer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Monasticism

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Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678716X
Total Pages : 2000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Monasticism written by William M. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Athenæum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Fictional and Historical Worlds

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Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137012641
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Fictional and Historical Worlds written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome Bruner to Stephen Greenblatt.

Praise of Folly

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Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847490100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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The Gentleman's Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

North/South

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Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148750005X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book North/South written by Ricardo J. Quinones and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North/South focuses on the dramatic changes in the intellectual and political typography of a Europe divided between the countries of the North and of those of the South.

The Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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The Athenaeum

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Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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A Philosophical Dictionary

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Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: