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Book Lettres    Sophie Volland

Download or read book Lettres Sophie Volland written by Denis Diderot and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the frequent letters that Diderot sent to Sophie. They give indications about his private life, his knowledge, and his thoughts on politics, art, art critics, and the intellectuals of his era. This correspondence is considered an important part of his work.

Book Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth  and Early Nineteenth century France

Download or read book Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth century France written by Allan H. Pasco and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society. Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, Allan Pasco examines the conceptual in eighteenth-century France's ideal of love from familial duty to personal fulfilment.

Book Sophie   s Diary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dora Musielak
  • Publisher : American Mathematical Society
  • Release : 2022-08-11
  • ISBN : 1470471566
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Sophie s Diary written by Dora Musielak and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education to prove that for all prime exponents less than 100 Case I of Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth century, Lagrange, Gauss, and Legendre. In Sophie's Diary, Germain comes to life through a fictionalized journal that intertwines mathematics with historical descriptions of the brutal events that took place in Paris between 1789 and 1793. This format provides a plausible perspective of how a young Sophie could have learned mathematics on her own—both fascinated by numbers and eager to master tough subjects without a teacher's guidance. Her passion for mathematics is integrated into her personal life as an escape from societal outrage. Sophie's Diary is suitable for a variety of readers—both young and old, mathematicians and novices—who will be inspired and enlightened on a field of study made easy, as told through the intellectual and personal struggles of an exceptional young woman.

Book Lettres    Sophie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Conter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9782879792125
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Lettres Sophie written by Claude Conter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lettres    Sophie sur la physique  la chimie et l histoire naturelle

Download or read book Lettres Sophie sur la physique la chimie et l histoire naturelle written by Louis Aimé Martin and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de

Download or read book Lettres de Sophie et du chevalier de written by Guillaume-François Fouques DesHayes DesFontaines “de” La Vallée and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot   s Writing

Download or read book Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot s Writing written by Jennifer Vanderheyden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le Père de famille, Jacques le fataliste and Est-il bon? Est-il méchant?. A scrutiny of Diderot’s mémoire/lettre novel La Religieuse proposes that, on the basis of moral cupidity, or self-gain, Madame Simonin sends her daughter Suzanne two veiled lettres de cachet that demand her confinement to a convent. The exploration of a fascinating real-life case of Henriette-Émilie de Bautru, a young comtesse whose mother confined her to a convent as a result of a lettre de cachet also based on motives of greed, leads to an examination of the similarities between Suzanne and the Comtesse in terms of their illegitimacy, questioning of authority and subsequent rebellion. A consideration of writing and communication in La Religieuse as they relate to this rebellion leads to an investigation of Diderot’s admiration of the mystery of female genius and artistic creativity as discussed in his essay Sur les femmes. The works of Julia Kristeva, especially her Post-Scriptum addressed to Diderot at the end of her work Thérèse mon amour: Thérèse d’Avila, serve as a theoretical basis for an interpretation of Suzanne’s experience as victim of a lettre de cachet and her search for a psychological rebirth of her être caché.

Book Sophie

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  • Author : Jean Louis Mollet
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1779
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Sophie written by Jean Louis Mollet and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clandestine Philosophy

Download or read book Clandestine Philosophy written by Gianni Paganini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.

Book Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth Century Northern France

Download or read book Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth Century Northern France written by Béatrice Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. Lille and the surrounding towns were then dominated by big and small family businesses, and many were run by women. Those women did not withdraw into the parlour as the century progressed and the ‘separate ideology’ spread. Neither did they become mere figure heads - most were business persons in their own rights. Yet, they have left almost no traces in the collective memory, and historians assume they ceased to exist. This book therefore seeks to answer three interrelated questions: How common were those women, and what kind of business did they run? What factors facilitated or impeded their activities? And finally, why have they been forgotten, and why has their representations in regional and academic history been so at odd with reality? Indirectly, this study also sheds light on the process of industrialization in this region, and on industrialists’ strategies.

Book Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Download or read book Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by John Christian Laursen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit or act on the basis of probability rather than certainty. In either case, one must reject dogmatic confidence in politics and philosophy. Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, the essays in Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. This volume is not just an authoritative account of skepticism’s importance from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution, it is also the basis for understanding skepticism’s continuing political implications.

Book Seduced by Logic

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  • Author : Robyn Arianrhod
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-11-22
  • ISBN : 0199931615
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Seduced by Logic written by Robyn Arianrhod and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Chatelet translated Newton's Principia into French (it is still the accepted translation), and Somerville (100 years later) translated LaPlace's Celestial mechanics into English, where her translation served as an advanced textbook for many years.

Book Communicating Chemistry

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  • Author : Anders Lundgren
  • Publisher : Science History Publications
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780881352740
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Communicating Chemistry written by Anders Lundgren and published by Science History Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and philosophers of science offer 18 papers from a European Science Foundation workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in February 1996, explore such questions as how textbooks differ from other forms of chemical literature, under what conditions they become established as a genre, whether they develop a specific rhetoric, how their audiences help shape the profile of chemistry, translations, and other topics. Only names are indexed.

Book Citizens without Sovereignty

Download or read book Citizens without Sovereignty written by Daniel Gordon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an authoritarian regime. A penetrating critique of those who exaggerate either the radicalism of the Enlightenment or the hegemony of the absolutist state, his book documents the invention of an ethos that was neither democratic nor absolutist, an ethos that idealized communication and private life. The key to this ethos was "sociability," and Gordon offers the first detailed study of the language and ideas that gave this concept its meaning in the Old Regime. Citizens without Sovereignty provides a wealth of information about the origins and usage of key words, such as société and sociabilité, in French thought. From semantic fields of meaning, Gordon goes on to consider institutional fields of action. Focusing on the ubiquitous idea of "society" as a depoliticized sphere of equality, virtue, and aesthetic cultivation, he marks out the philosophical space that lies between the idea of democracy and the idea of the royal police state. Within this space, Gordon reveals the channels of creative action that are open to citizens without sovereignty--citizens who have no right to self-government. His work is thus a contribution to general historical sociology as well as French intellectual history. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Gentleman s Magazine

Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: