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Book The Education of Children

Download or read book The Education of Children written by Michel de Montaigne and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Gerson
  • Publisher : Moody Publishers
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 1575679280
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book City of Man written by Michael Gerson and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An era has ended. The political expression that most galvanized evangelicals during the past quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading. What's ahead is unclear. Millions of faith-based voters still exist, and they continue to care deeply about hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage, but the shape of their future political engagement remains to be formed. Into this uncertainty, former White House insiders Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner seek to call evangelicals toward a new kind of political engagement -- a kind that is better both for the church and the country, a kind that cannot be co-opted by either political party, a kind that avoids the historic mistakes of both the Religious Left and the Religious Right. Incisive, bold, and marked equally by pragmatism and idealism, Gerson and Wehner's new book has the potential to chart a new political future not just for values voters, but for the nation as a whole.

Book The Philosophy of History

Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Press and Politics in Pre revolutionary France

Download or read book Press and Politics in Pre revolutionary France written by Jack C. Censer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voltaire s Tormented Soul

Download or read book Voltaire s Tormented Soul written by Alexander J. Nemeth and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The findings, in essence, reveal a person of dual identity, with unconscious forces playing a prominent role and holding the key to Voltaire's paradoxical character. His conscious, rational, and cognitively astute self - the standard-bearer of the philosophes in their epochal struggle for freedom - was also responsible for sealing off the subconscious portion of the self associated with traumatic experiences. The elaborate characterological structure erected to ward off consciously unacceptable impulses and, simultaneously, to obtain satisfaction of frustrated needs, is the subject of this study. The price he had to pay for the drastic disconnect between the two selves was formidable. In this volume, much attention is devoted to the unconventional ways and phantasmal stratagems adopted for dealing with the internal pressure of repressed impulses and a perpetual quest for affectional support. Some of these maneuvers show tenuous contact with social reality, as do his bizarre psychosomatic symptoms and bold rationalizations in the Memoirs." "Fortunately for the Western world, Voltaire's prodigious mind was put to use in rattling the cage of the intolerant and rigidly backward theocratic/political system. Due to his immense popularity as a playwright, and his agile participation in current events through a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, and occasional pieces, together with the gigantic volume and engaging style of his correspondence, the name Voltaire became synonymous with the Age of Enlightenment. The dual identity did not interfere with his effectiveness as a humanist. In fact, there is reason to believe that the energy invested in fighting l'infame, the oppressive authority of Church and State, was augmented by a dynamic driving force of the hidden self: the never verbalized and consciously never processed bitter resentment of paternal coercion. Principles and methods of depth psychology, as applied in the study, are elucidated and illustrated."--Jacket.

Book Piety and Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0874136938
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Piety and Politics written by Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent final chapel at Versailles, completed in 1710 near the end of his long reign (1643-1715). Construction, begun in 1699 on foundations of 1689, spanned the offices of two premiers architects du roi, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte. Eight painters and over 100 sculptors participated in the monumental undertaking, which remains almost unchanged today. An unusually large number of archival documents, drawings, and early texts about the chapel allow a detailed reconstruction of its history and meaning. Given Louis XIV's renown as one of the great kings and art patrons of all history and the universal definitions of his power in terms of divine kingship, the story of his palace chapel interests all historians of the ancien regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France  1769 1789

Download or read book The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769 1789 written by Robert Darnton and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot, as well as the scandalous books of grub street writers. Here we have a map of that world, constructed by Robert Darnton based on his many years of research in the field. Darnton shows us the scope of this literary underground with a complete bibliography of the hundreds of books that circulated "under the cloak." He documents their geographical distribution throughout France, and measures the levels of demand for these books. By ranking these levels of demand he compiles a bestseller list of illegal books, with surprising results. Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural history, the history of the book, the social history of ideas, and problems of censorship and state control of ideas.

Book An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

Download or read book An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa written by Alexander Falconbridge and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post Impressionism

Download or read book Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post Impressionism written by Mary Tompkins Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Readers are invited to consider the profound issues and penetrating questions that lie beneath this perennially popular body of work as the contributors examine the art world of late nineteenth-century France—including detailed looks at Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The authors offer fascinating new perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts. They explore these painters' pictorial and market strategies, the critical reception and modern criteria the paintings engendered, and the movement's historic role in the formation of an avant-garde tradition. Their research reflects the wealth of new documents, critical approaches, and scholarly exhibitions that have fundamentally altered our understanding of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. These essays, several of which have previously been familiar only to scholars, provide instructive models of in-depth critical analysis and of the competing art historical methods that have crucially reshaped the field. Contributors: Carol Armstrong, T. J. Clark, Stephen F. Eisenman, Tamar Garb, Nicholas Green, Robert L. Herbert, John House, Mary Tompkins Lewis, Michel Melot, Linda Nochlin, Richard Shiff, Debora Silverman, Paul Tucker, Martha Ward

Book Letters on the Navigation Laws  reprinted from the Morning Herald

Download or read book Letters on the Navigation Laws reprinted from the Morning Herald written by William Schaw Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short History of the Egyptian People

Download or read book A Short History of the Egyptian People written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation written by Kelly Washbourne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation provides an accessible, diverse and extensive overview of literary translation today. This next-generation volume brings together principles, case studies, precepts, histories and process knowledge from practitioners in sixteen different countries. Divided into four parts, the book covers many of literary translation’s most pressing concerns today, from teaching, to theorising, to translation techniques, to new tools and resources. Featuring genre studies, in which graphic novels, crime fiction, and ethnopoetry have pride of place alongside classics and sacred texts, The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation represents a vital resource for students and researchers of both translation studies and comparative literature.

Book A Short Account of that Part of Africa  Inhabited by the Negroes

Download or read book A Short Account of that Part of Africa Inhabited by the Negroes written by Anthony Benezet and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Labour and the Popular Welfare

Download or read book Labour and the Popular Welfare written by W. H. Mallock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is about the interaction of the Labour Movement, Socialism and the working classes in Great Britain. The author states that " The ultimate end of Government is to secure or provide for the greatest possible number, not indeed happiness, as is often inaccurately said, but the external conditions that make happiness possible." From this point, he builds the rest of his arguments.

Book Citt and Bumpkin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger L'Estrange
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 1465517839
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Citt and Bumpkin written by Roger L'Estrange and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voltaire in Exile

Download or read book Voltaire in Exile written by Ian Davidson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson has re-created this period in the life of one of the giant figures of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles, and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a portrait of this funny, iconoclastic, complex, and ferociously intelligent individual - the man Diderot described as "the unique man of the century.""--Jacket.