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Book Origine des premi  res soci  t  s  des peuples  des sciences  des arts et des idiomes anciens et modernes

Download or read book Origine des premi res soci t s des peuples des sciences des arts et des idiomes anciens et modernes written by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L Origine des premi  res soci  t  s  des peuples  sciences  des arts et des idiomes

Download or read book L Origine des premi res soci t s des peuples sciences des arts et des idiomes written by Poinsinet de Sivry, and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Search for Atlantis

Download or read book The Search for Atlantis written by Stephen Kershaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what was it like, and where did it go?Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in the fourth century BCE. As he discusses about the origins of life, the universe and humanity, the great thinker puts forward a stunning description of Atlantis—an island paradise with an ideal society. But the Atlanteans soon degenerate and become imperialist aggressors: they choose to fight against antediluvian Athens, which heroically repels their mighty forces, before a cataclysmic natural disaster destroys the warring states.Plato’s tale of a great empire that sank beneath the waves has sparked thousands of years of debate over whether Atlantis really existed. But did Plato mean his tale as history—or just as a parable to help illustrate his philosophy?

Book Sans Culottes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Sonenscher
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-12
  • ISBN : 0691180806
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Sans Culottes written by Michael Sonenscher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content and course. To explain how an early eighteenth-century salon society joke about breeches and urbanity was transformed into a republican emblem, Sans-Culottes examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. By piecing together this now forgotten story, Michael Sonenscher opens up new perspectives on the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the political history of the French Revolution itself.

Book Imaginary Languages

Download or read book Imaginary Languages written by Marina Yaguello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined languages that are autonomous systems, complete unto themselves and meant for communal use; imaginary, and therefore unlike both natural languages and historically attested languages; and products of an individual effort to lay hold of language. Inventors of languages, Yaguello writes, are madly in love: they love an object that belongs to them only to the extent that they also share it with a community. Yaguello investigates the sources of imaginary languages, in myths, dreams, and utopias. She takes readers on a tour of languages invented in literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including that in More’s Utopia, Leibniz’s “algebra of thought,” and Bulwer-Lytton’s linguistic fiction. She examines the linguistic fantasies (or madness) of Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr and Swiss medium Hélène Smith; and considers the quest for the true philosophical language. Yaguello finds two abiding (and somewhat contradictory) forces: the diversity of linguistic experience, which stands opposed to unifying endeavors, and, on the other hand, features shared by all languages (natural or not) and their users, which justifies the universalist hypothesis. Recent years have seen something of a boom in invented languages, whether artificial languages meant to facilitate international communication or imagined languages constructed as part of science fiction worlds. In Imaginary Languages (an updated and expanded version of the earlier Les Fous du langage, published in English as Lunatic Lovers of Language), Yaguello shows that the invention of language is above all a passionate, dizzying labor of love.

Book Biographie Universelle  Ancienne Et Moderne

Download or read book Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment

Download or read book Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment written by Zuzanna Krzemień and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemień delves into Solomon Dubno's life (1738–1813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ties to Eastern European Jewish culture. Dubno, a devout Polish Jew and adept Hebrew grammarian, played a pivotal role in Moses Mendelssohn's endeavor to translate the Bible into German with a modern commentary (Biur). The book explores Dubno's library, mapping the intellectual realm of a Polish Maskil in Western Europe. It assesses his influence on Mendelssohn's project and the reasons behind their divergence. Additionally, it analyzes Dubno's poetry, designed to captivate peers with the Bible's linguistic beauty. The outcome portrays early Haskalah as a polyvocal, polycentric creation shaped by diverse, occasionally conflicting, visions, personalities, and egos.

Book De l origine des loix  des arts et des sciences  et de leur progr  s chez les anciens peuples  Tome premier   sixieme  Goguet

Download or read book De l origine des loix des arts et des sciences et de leur progr s chez les anciens peuples Tome premier sixieme Goguet written by Antoine Yves Goguet and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Atlantis Story

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  • Author : Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Atlantis Story written by Pierre Vidal-Naquet and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of the development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it...Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis - all of which are futile for the very good reason that Plato made the island up - the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. He shows how Plato's myth was reinterpreted in the medieval period and after through conflation with the search for the lost tribes of Israel; how it became involved with the debate about whether Europe should look back to its origins in the Classical or Biblical worlds; how the myth was reinterpreted with a more geographical emphasis following Columbus' discovery of America; and how it was used in the "Enlightenment" to add colour to nationalist attempts to claim antiquity by finding unrecognised origins. Written in a clear and interesting way, Pierre Vidal-Naquet's original ideas rest on deep knowledge supported by primary references and illustrations.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library  1919 1962

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library 1919 1962 written by University of California, Los Angeles. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De l origine des lois  des arts et des sciences  et de leurs progr  s chez les anciens peuples  par Antoine Yves Goguet  Tome premier   troisieme

Download or read book De l origine des lois des arts et des sciences et de leurs progr s chez les anciens peuples par Antoine Yves Goguet Tome premier troisieme written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

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  • Author : Library of Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1042 pages

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De l origine des lois  des arts et des sciences  et de leurs progres chez les anciens peuples  par Antoine Yves Goguet     Tome premier  troisieme

Download or read book De l origine des lois des arts et des sciences et de leurs progres chez les anciens peuples par Antoine Yves Goguet Tome premier troisieme written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: