Download or read book H Taine Sa Vie Et Sa Correspondance written by Hippolyte Taine and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anatomy of Eminence written by Daniel Rosenberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its prominence in public discourse, the notion of elites remains a highly contested and ambiguous part of modern political discourse. This monograph rehabilitates the idea of elites and gives it a solid theoretical footing, while relating it with the historical development of liberal thought in the west. The analysis offered in the book concentrates on the tradition of liberal political thought in France, which has consistently tackled the question of the elites, their role in society, and the process of their formation. Combining theoretical insights with practical wisdom, French liberal thinkers have seen the elite as an indispensable social category and as a vehicle for the development of human liberty. In their different prescriptive doctrines, French liberal thinkers have sought to reconcile the emergence of social elites with the requirements of social and political equality, as well as with the ongoing modernization of mores and institutions. The monograph offers a unique contribution to scholarship in modern political thought by engaging analytically with the notion of elites, as well as by offering a structured discussion on the historical development of liberalism in France.
Download or read book National Identities in France written by Brian Sudlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern, occludes the many ways in which nationalism and national identities have contributed to social imagination and political or literary discourses across the right-left spectrum. The critical grounds on which such reflections are undertaken are rich and varied. The idea of invented traditions has long suggested how such a thing as the modernnation-state could vest itself in the creatively assembled robes of a dim and distant past. In plotting the ground on which nationalisms are located, previous studies have shown, among other things, the uses and limitations of the distinction of ethnic and civic nationalism. Studies on national development reveal the imitative process that brought about nation building in former colonies of the Western powers. Each chapter asks important questions concerning nationalism and national identities in relation to France. With nationalism, apparently stable distinctions collapse under the pressure of French national identity. The signs are that French national identities and nationalisms are in a constant state of reinvention and negotiation, of periodic crisis and constant rebirth. If political classes attempt to manipulate national identity for some larger project, they have no monopoly on the social imaginary. National mobilization is a multiple and polysemic process, not a univocal and rigid ideology.
Download or read book Christian Krohg s Naturalism written by Øystein Sjåstad and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852–1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for serving as a mentor to Edvard Munch. One of the Nordic countries’ most avant-garde naturalist artists, Krohg was influenced by French thinkers such as Émile Zola, Claude Bernard, and Hippolyte Taine, and he shocked the provincial sensibilities of his time. His work reached beyond the art world when his book Albertine and its related paintings were banned upon publication. Telling the story of a young seamstress who turns to a life of prostitution, it galvanized support for outlawing prostitution in Norway—but Krohg was also punished for the work’s sexual content. Examining the theories of Krohg and his fellow naturalists and their reception in Scandinavian intellectual circles, Øystein Sjåstad places Krohg in an international perspective and reveals his striking contribution to European naturalism. In the process, Christian Krohg’s Naturalism provides an unparalleled account of Krohg’s art.
Download or read book The Evolution of French Canada written by Jean Charlemagne Bracq and published by New York : Macmillan Company, 1926 [1924]. This book was released on 1924 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of the Empress Eugenie written by Jane T. Stoddart and published by London, Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1906 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Procession written by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of a great nation as it passes down the ages appears as a spectacle, a progress, wherein every figure is the embodiment of a whole invisible plexus of secret influences, ideas, traditions, and revolts. For if the passions and feelings of men remain almost unaltered, their ideas and their ideals change with every age. Each man begins where his predecessor stared, profits by his acquirements, and carries on the message. This book offers--in English--biographical sketches of the lives of the famous French writers who comprise (for this author) that progress.
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Download or read book Intellect and Character in Victorian England written by H. S. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of a distinguished Victorian intellectual at the epicentre of the revolutions transforming English academic and intellectual life.
Download or read book The Crowd and the Mob Routledge Revivals written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century. The book examines histories of political thought and their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent and profoundly anti-democratic bias in political and social thought, analysing in particular the writings of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hitler, Gibbon, Carlysle, Michelet, Taine and Freud.
Download or read book University Library Bulletin written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Despondency written by Jacob Teunis Harskamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a text-orientated approach, this study presents a rich mosaic depicting a tradition of European socio-cultural criticism since the French Revolution. Accepting the inevitability of technological advance, critics rejected the proud assumption of progress and stressed the negatives instead.
Download or read book France Herself Again written by Ernest Dimnet and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Measure of Merit written by John Carson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications. Surveying a broad array of political tracts, philosophical treatises, scientific works, and journalistic writings, Carson chronicles the gradual embrace of the IQ version of intelligence in the United States, while in France, the birthplace of the modern intelligence test, expert judgment was consistently prized above such quantitative measures. He also reveals the crucial role that determinations of, and contests over, merit have played in both societies--they have helped to organize educational systems, justify racial hierarchies, classify army recruits, and direct individuals onto particular educational and career paths. A contribution to both the history of science and intellectual history, The Measure of Merit illuminates the shadow languages of inequality that have haunted the American and French republics since their inceptions.
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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