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Book Les Passions de L ame

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  • Author : René Descartes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1649
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Les Passions de L ame written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1649 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passions of the Soul

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  • Author : René Descartes
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 1989-12-15
  • ISBN : 162466198X
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Passions of the Soul written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

Book Les Passions de L ame

Download or read book Les Passions de L ame written by and published by . This book was released on 1664 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Descartes and the Passionate Mind

Download or read book Descartes and the Passionate Mind written by Deborah J. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and original reading of Descartes' account of mind-body unity and his theory of mind.

Book Face Value

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  • Author : Christopher Rivers
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780299143947
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Face Value written by Christopher Rivers and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. Physiognomy, which purports to "read" the body as an index to spiritual, intellectual, or moral qualities, had its greatest proponent in the eighteenth century Swiss theoretician Johann Caspar Lavater. In addition to closely reading the fictional narratives of Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola, the author offers a critical reading of Lavater's work. He looks at some of the most compelling and explicit literary treatments of physiognomy in the French canon, suggesting that the ways authors use physiognomical ideas to render the world "hyper-significant" poses fundamental questions about the nature of narrative itself. He also shows how physiognomy serves almost invariably as a tool of sexism as it attempts to ascribe intellectual or moral qualities on the basis of corporal features. Linked by more than their physiognomical themes, these novels share similar dynamics of reading, rhetoric, and representation.

Book Elemental Passions

Download or read book Elemental Passions written by Luce Irigaray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elemental Passions explores the man/woman relaitonship in a series of meditations of the senses and the formal elements. Its form resembles a series of love letters in which, however, the identity-and even the reality-of the adressee are deliberately obscured.

Book The Expression of the Passions

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  • Author : Jennifer Montagu
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300058918
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Expression of the Passions written by Jennifer Montagu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1688, Charles Le Brun, a French academician, delivered a lecture on expression that was so popular it was published in sixty-three separate editions and influenced all discussion of the subject throughout Europe for over a century. This book reconstructs and translates the text of the lecture (badly garbled in all previous versions), explores the context in which it was conceived, delivered, received, and finally rejected, and reproduces the images that accompanied the lecture.

Book Les passions de l   me

Download or read book Les passions de l me written by René Des Cartes and published by . This book was released on 1650 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mortal Subjects

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  • Author : Christina Howells
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2011-12-27
  • ISBN : 0745652743
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Mortal Subjects written by Christina Howells and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work’s primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the ‘death’ of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death.

Book Life Energies  Forces and the Shaping of Life  Vital  Existential

Download or read book Life Energies Forces and the Shaping of Life Vital Existential written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 70). Though caught up in its relatively stable, stationary intervals manifesting the steps of its accomplishments that our attention is fixed. In this selection of studies we proceed, in contrast, to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore. Startling questions emerge: `what distinction could be drawn between the prompting forces of life and its formation? Or, is this distinction a result of our transcendental faculties?' The answers to these questions reveal themselves, as Tymieniecka proposes, at the phenomenologically ontopoietic level of life's origination where transcendentality surges.

Book L   me Enchant  e

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  • Author : Romain Rolland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book L me Enchant e written by Romain Rolland and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Merleau Ponty Reader

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  • Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2007-10-19
  • ISBN : 0810120437
  • Pages : 509 pages

Download or read book The Merleau Ponty Reader written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-19 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work, this selection collecting in one volume the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical 20th-century philosopher's thought.

Book Les passions de l   me

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  • Author : Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

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Book Music in the Flesh

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  • Author : Bettina Varwig
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-07-20
  • ISBN : 0226826899
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Music in the Flesh written by Bettina Varwig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers, performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is described as moving, ravishing, painful, dangerous, curative, and miraculous while affecting “the circulation of the humors, the purification of the blood, the dilation of the vessels and pores.” How were these early modern European bodies constituted that music generated such potent bodily-spiritual effects? Bettina Varwig argues that early modern music-making practices challenge our modern understanding of human nature as a mind-body dichotomy. Instead, they persistently affirm a more integrated anthropology, in which body, soul, and spirit remain inextricably entangled. Moving with ease across repertories and regions, sacred and vernacular musics, and domestic and public settings, Varwig sketches a “musical physiology” that is as historically illuminating as it is relevant for present-day performance. This book makes a significant contribution not just to the history of music, but also to the history of the body, the senses, and the emotions, revealing music as a unique access point for reimagining early modern modes of being-in-the-world.

Book Die Wende Von Der Aufkl  rung Zur Romantik 1760 1820

Download or read book Die Wende Von Der Aufkl rung Zur Romantik 1760 1820 written by Horst Albert Glaser and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a four-volume history of European literature from 1760-1820, and the first of these volumes, Des Lumières au Romantisme. Genres en Vers, appeared as long ago as 1982. The volumes Genres en Prose and Théâtre are still awaited. In their absence the present volume, Epoche im _berblick, attempts a more comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the period and its historiographical problems than was initially planned, providing the reader with an overview of sixty eventful years of European literary history — years in which German Classicism coincided with the birth, initially in Germany and England, of Romanticism. And at the centre of this turbulent period of European intellectual and literary history stands the French Revolution.

Book The Physical and the Moral

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  • Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-08
  • ISBN : 9780521524629
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Physical and the Moral written by Elizabeth A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "physical-moral" relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected, because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine, which include experimental, reductionist, and localistic conceptions of health and disease. Professor Williams also challenges existing historiography, which holds that the "anthropological" approach to medicine was a short-term by-product of the leftist politics of the French Revolution. This work argues instead that the medical science of man long outlived the revolution, that it spanned traditional ideological divisions, and that it reflected the shared aim of French physicians, whatever their politics, to claim broad cultural authority in French society.

Book Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period

Download or read book Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period written by Karl A.E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one’s own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was seen as essential for the defence of an individual’s social position, it was at the same time considered a self-destructive force. The contributions in this volume converge in the aim of mapping out the discursive networks in which anger featured and how they all generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger. These discourses include philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art. Contributors: David M. Barbee, Maria Berbara, Tamás Demeter, Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen, Betül Dilmac, Karl Enenkel, Tilman Haug, Michael Krewet, Johannes F. Lehmann, John Nassichuk, Jan Papy, Christian Peters, Bernd Roling, Paolo Santangelo, Barbara Sasse Tateo, Anita Traninger, Jakob Willis, and Zeynep Yelçe.