Author: A.P. Coudert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792352235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Seven essays, from a November 1994 conference in Los Angeles, aspire to stamp out once and for all the notion that Kant solved the problem of skepticism. Commemorating C. F. Staudlin, the first historian of skepticism (1794), they document the continuing vitality of a skeptical tradition in Germany, France, and Britain. They consider the role of skepticism in pure philosophy itself, but also in politics; science; and social issues such as smallpox inoculation, suicide, and capital punishment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion
Author: A.P. Coudert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792352235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Seven essays, from a November 1994 conference in Los Angeles, aspire to stamp out once and for all the notion that Kant solved the problem of skepticism. Commemorating C. F. Staudlin, the first historian of skepticism (1794), they document the continuing vitality of a skeptical tradition in Germany, France, and Britain. They consider the role of skepticism in pure philosophy itself, but also in politics; science; and social issues such as smallpox inoculation, suicide, and capital punishment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792352235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Seven essays, from a November 1994 conference in Los Angeles, aspire to stamp out once and for all the notion that Kant solved the problem of skepticism. Commemorating C. F. Staudlin, the first historian of skepticism (1794), they document the continuing vitality of a skeptical tradition in Germany, France, and Britain. They consider the role of skepticism in pure philosophy itself, but also in politics; science; and social issues such as smallpox inoculation, suicide, and capital punishment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Secular Age
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
The Artificial and the Natural
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026201
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026201
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Twice Upon a Time
Author: Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691115672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691115672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."
The Conjuror's Magazine, Or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror
A History of Turin
Author: Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788806181246
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 281
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788806181246
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 281
Book Description
Dramatic Expression in Rameau's Tragédie en Musique
Author: Cynthia Verba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107311004
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Cynthia Verba's book explores the story of music's role in the French Enlightenment, focusing on dramatic expression in the musical tragedies of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. She reveals how his music achieves its highly moving effects through an interplay between rational design, especially tonal design, and the portrayal of feeling and how this results in a more nuanced portrayal of the heroine. Offering a new approach to understanding Rameau's role in the Enlightenment, Verba illuminates important aspects of the theory-practice relationship and shows how his music embraced Enlightenment values. At the heart of the study are three scene types that occur in all of Rameau's tragedies: confession of forbidden love, intense conflict and conflict resolution. In tracing changes in Rameau's treatment of these, Verba finds that while he maintained an allegiance to the traditional French operatic model, he constantly adapted it to accommodate his more enlightened views on musical expression.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107311004
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Cynthia Verba's book explores the story of music's role in the French Enlightenment, focusing on dramatic expression in the musical tragedies of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. She reveals how his music achieves its highly moving effects through an interplay between rational design, especially tonal design, and the portrayal of feeling and how this results in a more nuanced portrayal of the heroine. Offering a new approach to understanding Rameau's role in the Enlightenment, Verba illuminates important aspects of the theory-practice relationship and shows how his music embraced Enlightenment values. At the heart of the study are three scene types that occur in all of Rameau's tragedies: confession of forbidden love, intense conflict and conflict resolution. In tracing changes in Rameau's treatment of these, Verba finds that while he maintained an allegiance to the traditional French operatic model, he constantly adapted it to accommodate his more enlightened views on musical expression.
Queenship in Europe 1660-1815
Author: Clarissa Campbell Orr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521814225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521814225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher Description
Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865220
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865220
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests
Author: David J. Buch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226078116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226078116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.