Author: John Nicholas Pappas
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Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Essays on Diderot and the Enlightenment in Honor of Otis Fellows
Author: John Nicholas Pappas
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Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Diderot and the Time-space Continuum
Author: Merle L. Perkins
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Diderot
Author: April Ane Knutson
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Imagine There's No Heaven
Author: Mitchell Stephens
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137002603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137002603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Diderot
Author: Otis Fellows
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Bastille
Author: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Theodore Besterman
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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