Author: Capitaine La TourPublisher:
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Languages : fr
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Lettre du capitaine La Tour, contenant la réfutation des calomnies imposées au parti du parlement et de la ville de Paris
Author: Capitaine La TourLettre du capitaine La Tour contenant la réfutation des Calomnies imposées au party du Parlement, & de la Ville de Paris
Author: Lettre dv capitaine La Tour contenant la réfvtation des calomnies imposées au party du Parlement & de la ville de Paris
Author: La Tour (capitaine.)Lettre dv capitaine la Tovr contenant la refvtation des calomnies imposées au party du parlement & de la ville de Paris
Author: La Tour (capitaine)Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
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Lettre dv capitaine La Tovr contenant la refvtation des calomnies imposées au party du Parlement, & de la ville de Paris
Author: La TourLettre dv capitaine La Tovr contenant le refvtation des calomnies imposée au party du Parlement, & de la ville de Paris
Author: La Tour (Captain.)Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
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Lettre ... contenant le refutation des Calomnies imposees au party du Parlament, & de la Ville de Paris
Author: ..... LatourPolicing Public Opinion in the French Revolution
Author: Charles WaltonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199710015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Theosophy
Author: René GuénonPublisher: Sophia Perennis
ISBN: 9780900588808
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Since the late nineteenth century, the Theosophical Society has been a central force in the movement now known as the New Age. Just as the Communist Party was considered 'old hat' by peace activists in the '60s, so the Theosophical Society was looked upon by many in the 'spiritual revolution' of those years as cranky, uninteresting, and passé. But the Society, like the Party, was always there, and-despite its relatively few members-always better organized than anybody else. Since then, the Society's influence has certainly not waned. It plays an important role in today's global interfaith movement, and, since the flowering of the New Age in the '70s, has established increasingly intimate ties with the global elites. And its various spinoffs, such as Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Summit Lighthouse, and Benjamin Crème's continuing attempt to lead a 'World Teacher Maitreya' onto the global stage-just as the Society tried to do in the last century with Krishnamurti-continue to send waves through the sea of 'alternative' spiritualities. Guénon shows how our popular ideas of karma and reincarnation actually owe more to Theosophy than to Hinduism or Buddhism, provides a clear picture of the charlatanry that was sometimes a part of the Society's modus operandi, and gives the early history of the Society's bid for political power, particularly its role as an agent of British imperialism in India. It is fitting that this work should finally appear in English just at this moment, when the influence of pseudo-esoteric spiritualities on global politics is probably greater than ever before in Western history.
Life of Petrarch
Author: Ernest Hatch WilkinsPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Biography of the 14th century Italian scholar.