Author: Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547768
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Bibliography of Editions of the Writings of Benjamin Constant to 1833
Author: Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547768
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547768
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Bibliography of Editions of the Writings of Benjamin Constant to 1833
Author: Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951016602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951016602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Benjamin Constant
Author: Dennis Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
`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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
`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.
Constant: Political Writings
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521316323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521316323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet
Author: British Library
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111576698
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111576698
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Passion for Democracy
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 1892941139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The French Revolution rang the death knell not only for a form of society, but also for a way of feeling and of living; and it is still not clear as yet what did we gain from the changes. Benjamin Constant was one of the first to draw up this dark diagnosis. "We no longer know how to love, neither to believe, nor to want. As a result, Heaven no longer offers hope, the earth dignity, the heart refuge." But is it enough to deplore it? Constant does not think so, and having become the first French thinker of democracy, he undertakes to seek remedies to the problem: a political framework that guarantees the dignity of the individual without dissolving the social bond; a religion stripped of its oppressive forms; a love finding the place which is due to values, higher than "all the thrones of the earth."
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 1892941139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The French Revolution rang the death knell not only for a form of society, but also for a way of feeling and of living; and it is still not clear as yet what did we gain from the changes. Benjamin Constant was one of the first to draw up this dark diagnosis. "We no longer know how to love, neither to believe, nor to want. As a result, Heaven no longer offers hope, the earth dignity, the heart refuge." But is it enough to deplore it? Constant does not think so, and having become the first French thinker of democracy, he undertakes to seek remedies to the problem: a political framework that guarantees the dignity of the individual without dissolving the social bond; a religion stripped of its oppressive forms; a love finding the place which is due to values, higher than "all the thrones of the earth."
Myth and Legend in French Literature
Author: Keith Aspley
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547850
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547850
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Text
Author: D. C. Greetham
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The distinguished annual in interdisciplinary textual studies
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107162
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The distinguished annual in interdisciplinary textual studies
When the French Tried to be British
Author: J.A.W. Gunn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077358224X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to political opponents. A sophisticated minority - including such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staƫl, and Guizot - recognized the need for something approaching the British political culture, but the wounds opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed. A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagreement that was the spirit of the British model had to await the Fifth Republic.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077358224X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to political opponents. A sophisticated minority - including such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staƫl, and Guizot - recognized the need for something approaching the British political culture, but the wounds opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed. A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagreement that was the spirit of the British model had to await the Fifth Republic.
Historicist Essays on Hispano-Medieval Narrative
Author: Barry Taylor
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1904350313
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walkers memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1904350313
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walkers memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.