Author: Jean Ashmead PerkinsPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034944
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Concept of the Self in the French Enlightenment
Author: Jean Ashmead PerkinsPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034944
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Virtues of Abandon
Author: Charly ColemanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080479121X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. The Virtues of Abandon traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current of anti-individualism that permeated theology, philosophy, and politics throughout the period. Fired by the desire to abandon the self, men and women sought new ways to relate to God, nature, and nation. They joined illicit mystic cults that engaged in rituals of physical mortification and sexual license, committed suicides in the throes of materialist fatalism, drank potions to induce consciousness-altering dreams, railed against the degrading effects of unfettered consumption, and ultimately renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their social existence. The explosive denouement was the French Revolution, during which God and king were toppled from their thrones.
Sentimental Savants
Author: Meghan K. RobertsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638411X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Men of Letters, Men of Feeling -- 2. Working Together -- 3. Love, Proof, and Smallpox Inoculation -- 4. Enlightening Children -- 5. Organic Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Conserving the Enlightenment
Author: Jānis LanginsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262122580
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering.
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Author: Immanuel KantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The concept of the self in the French Enlightenment
Author: Jean A. PerkinsThe French Enlightenment and its Others
Author: D. HarveyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137002549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.
An Age of Crisis
Author: Lester G. CrockerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421433885
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Originally published in 1959. This book examines the French Enlightenment by analyzing critical thought in eighteenth-centruy France. It examines the philosophes' views on evil, free will and determinism, and human nature. This is an interesting group to look at, according to Crocker, because French Enlightenment thinkers straddled two vastly different time periods.
The Other Enlightenment
Author: Carla HessePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprecedented numbers and became active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates that gave birth to our understanding of the individual as a self-creating, self-determining agent. Carla Hesse tells this story, delivering a capacious history of how French women have used writing to create themselves as modern individuals. Beginning with the marketplace fishwives and salon hostesses whose eloquence shaped French culture low and high and leading us through the accomplishments of Simone de Beauvoir, Hesse shows what it meant to make an independent intellectual life as a woman in France. She offers exquisitely constructed portraits of the work and mental lives of many fascinating women--including both well-known novelists and now-obscure pamphleteers--who put pen to paper during and after the Revolution. We learn how they negotiated control over their work and authorial identity--whether choosing pseudonyms like Georges Sand or forsaking profits to sign their own names. We encounter the extraordinary Louise de Kéralio-Robert, a critically admired historian who re-created herself as a revolutionary novelist. We meet aristocratic women whose literary criticism subjected them to slander as well as writers whose rhetoric cost them not only reputation but marriage, citizenship, and even their heads. Crucially, their stories reveal how the unequal terms on which women entered the modern era shaped how they wrote and thought. Though women writers and thinkers championed the full range of political and social positions--from royalist to Jacobin, from ultraconservative to fully feminist--they shared common moral perspectives and representational strategies. Unlike the Enlightenment of their male peers, theirs was more skeptical than idealist, more situationalist than universalist. And this alternative project lies at the very heart of modern French letters.
Author: Jean Alfred Perkins