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Book A Global Enlightenment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Statman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-05
  • ISBN : 0226825760
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book A Global Enlightenment written by Alexander Statman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary, a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West - and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe, and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought, Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from the eighteenth century to today"--

Book Catalogue of the Library of Parliament  Works relating to America  Pamphlets and manuscripts

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Parliament Works relating to America Pamphlets and manuscripts written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue de la Biblioth  que du Parlement du Canada

Download or read book Catalogue de la Biblioth que du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers  Circular

Download or read book The Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyclopaedia Bibliographica

Download or read book Cyclopaedia Bibliographica written by James Darling and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Volume 14  Kierkegaard s Influence on Social Political Thought

Download or read book Volume 14 Kierkegaard s Influence on Social Political Thought written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholars have long recognized Kierkegaard's important contributions to fields such as ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, philosophical psychology, and hermeneutics, it was usually thought that he had nothing meaningful to say about society or politics. Kierkegaard has been traditionally characterized as a Christian writer who placed supreme importance on the inward religious life of each individual believer. His radical view seemed to many to undermine any meaningful conception of the community, society or the state. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to correct this image of Kierkegaard as an apolitical thinker. The present volume attempts to document the use of Kierkegaard by later thinkers in the context of social-political thought. It shows how his ideas have been employed by very different kinds of writers and activists with very different political goals and agendas. Many of the articles show that, although Kierkegaard has been criticized for his reactionary views on some social and political questions, he has been appropriated as a source of insight and inspiration by a number of later thinkers with very progressive, indeed, visionary political views.

Book Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year

Download or read book Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the London Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quotable Voltaire

    Book Details:
  • Author : François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778)
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-18
  • ISBN : 1684482933
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Quotable Voltaire written by François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778) and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, and also one of the wittiest and most insightful. This unique collection of over 800 of Voltaire’s wisest passages and choicest bons mots runs the gamut on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Drawing from a wide range of his publications, private letters, and remarks recorded by his contemporaries, The Quotable Voltaire includes material never before gathered in a single volume. English translations appear alongside the original French, and each quote is thoroughly indexed and referenced, with page numbers for both the first known publication edition of each entry and the most recent edition of Voltaire’s works. The book also features over 400 quotes about Voltaire, including commentary by eighteenth-century luminaries like Samuel Johnson, Catherine the Great, Casanova, and John Adams, as well as an eclectic assortment of modern-day personages ranging from Winston Churchill and Jorge Luis Borges to Mae West and Mike Tyson. Lavishly illustrated with nearly three dozen images of Voltaire-related art, this collection opens with a scholarly essay that recounts the great man’s life and reflects on his outsized influence on Western culture. Whether you are a Voltaire scholar or a neophyte, The Quotable Voltaire is the perfect introduction to a brilliant mind.

Book Cyclopaedia Bibliographica

Download or read book Cyclopaedia Bibliographica written by James Darling (Publisher) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Biographies of Isaac Newton  1660 1885 vol 2

Download or read book Early Biographies of Isaac Newton 1660 1885 vol 2 written by Rob Iliffe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, poetry and memoranda, and explores the debate over Newton's reputation, work and personal life.

Book The Vincentians  A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Download or read book The Vincentians A General History of the Congregation of the Mission written by John E. Rybolt and published by New City Press. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution nearly destroyed the Vincentians in France, and those in most other countries were isolated, persecuted in every degree from niggling regulations to imprisonment and martyrdom, and sometimes squeezed into oblivion. To these external miseries were added painful internal schisms: the Italians, abetted by other countries and the Holy See, pushed to center the Congregation in Rome; interdicts against communication with foreign superiors forced provinces in many countries to act autonomously; national pressures to swear loyalty and conform to compromising regulations created splits within the community and threatened to divide the Daughters and separate them from their brothers. Reduced membership and funding crippled the Vincentians’ efforts as they emerged from the worst of the state obstructions. Nevertheless, they began rebuilding and even made struggling beginnings in overseas missions, notably the United States, Brazil, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, and China, where the martyrdom of two missionaries galvanized interest in this distant and challenging mission.

Book The Publishers  Circular and Booksellers  Record

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents Relatifs    la Monnaie  Au Change Et Aux Finances Du Canada Sous Le R  gime Fran  ais

Download or read book Documents Relatifs la Monnaie Au Change Et Aux Finances Du Canada Sous Le R gime Fran ais written by Public Archives of Canada. Board of Historical Publications and published by F.A. Acland. This book was released on 1925 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publishers  circular and booksellers  record

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: