Author: James Harrington
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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The Oceana, and Other Works, Now First Publish'd from His Own Manuscripts (etc.)
Author: James Harrington
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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James Harrington's Oceana
Author: James Harrington
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Miscellaneous Works. .. Published from His Original Manuscripts ... Prefixed a Copious Account of the Author's Life and Writings by Des Maizeaux
Author: John Toland
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness
Author: Kenneth Craven
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at Oxford to the Newtonian synthesis within the context of Paracelsian medicine and the chemical-mechanical split. Craven shows that Swift joins the philosophies of a neoplatonic divine order, Epicurean atomism, the Reformation, and scientific millenarianism as permeating his time with millennial myths sure eventually to detonate the sense of composure of individuals and societies. In contradistinction, Swift elucidates links between the humors traditions in medicine and literature, saturnine melancholy and the dreaming god Kronos. He proposes the somber realism of the Kronos myth as providing awareness of the self-imposed restraints on ego needed to preclude the proliferation of modern information systems into trivialization of the human enterprise to meaninglessness. This fresh and exhaustive examination of the Anglo-Irish writer's first masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (1704) unlocks barriers to seeing the nature of Swift's complex integrity, passion, and literary achievements throughout a career studded with disappointments. Specifically, this study authoritatively reveals the identity of unnamed victims of Swift's satire as the deist John Toland and his republican hero, John Milton, for their advocacy of the Puritan Revolution and regicide; Toland's mentor John Locke and another Lockean disciple, Lord Shaftesbury, who confused happiness and self-interest with delusion and the public weal; and his tormentors in the Church of Ireland, Narcissus Marsh and Peter Browne.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at Oxford to the Newtonian synthesis within the context of Paracelsian medicine and the chemical-mechanical split. Craven shows that Swift joins the philosophies of a neoplatonic divine order, Epicurean atomism, the Reformation, and scientific millenarianism as permeating his time with millennial myths sure eventually to detonate the sense of composure of individuals and societies. In contradistinction, Swift elucidates links between the humors traditions in medicine and literature, saturnine melancholy and the dreaming god Kronos. He proposes the somber realism of the Kronos myth as providing awareness of the self-imposed restraints on ego needed to preclude the proliferation of modern information systems into trivialization of the human enterprise to meaninglessness. This fresh and exhaustive examination of the Anglo-Irish writer's first masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (1704) unlocks barriers to seeing the nature of Swift's complex integrity, passion, and literary achievements throughout a career studded with disappointments. Specifically, this study authoritatively reveals the identity of unnamed victims of Swift's satire as the deist John Toland and his republican hero, John Milton, for their advocacy of the Puritan Revolution and regicide; Toland's mentor John Locke and another Lockean disciple, Lord Shaftesbury, who confused happiness and self-interest with delusion and the public weal; and his tormentors in the Church of Ireland, Narcissus Marsh and Peter Browne.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Early Printed Books, 1470-1740
Author: Swann Galleries
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Bulletin ...
Author: Art ancien S.A.
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Ideas Across Borders
Author: Gaby Mahlberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003854281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 1600 to 1840. Translations played a crucial role in the transmission of political ideas across linguistic and cultural borders in early modern Europe. Yet intellectual historians have been slow to adopt the study of translations as an analytical tool for the understanding of such cultural transfers. Recently, a number of different approaches to transnational intellectual history have emerged, allowing historians of early modern Europe to draw on work not just in translation studies, literary studies, conceptual history, the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, but also in the history of print and its significance for cultural transfer. Thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts in translation can place them more accurately in time and space. This book provides a better understanding of the extent to which ideas crossed linguistic and cultural divides, and how they were re-shaped in the process. Written in an accessible style, this volume is aimed at scholars in cognate disciplines as well as at postgraduate students.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003854281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 1600 to 1840. Translations played a crucial role in the transmission of political ideas across linguistic and cultural borders in early modern Europe. Yet intellectual historians have been slow to adopt the study of translations as an analytical tool for the understanding of such cultural transfers. Recently, a number of different approaches to transnational intellectual history have emerged, allowing historians of early modern Europe to draw on work not just in translation studies, literary studies, conceptual history, the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, but also in the history of print and its significance for cultural transfer. Thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts in translation can place them more accurately in time and space. This book provides a better understanding of the extent to which ideas crossed linguistic and cultural divides, and how they were re-shaped in the process. Written in an accessible style, this volume is aimed at scholars in cognate disciplines as well as at postgraduate students.
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Author: Illinois State Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Author: Illinois State Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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