Download or read book Savoir et pouvoir au si cle des lumi res written by Jan Borm and published by Les Editions de Paris-Max Chaleil. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En ce XVIIIe siècle où l'Europe parlait français, où le Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française de Rivarol était couronné par l'Académie de Berlin, Frédéric II réservait l'usage de l'allemand à ses chevaux et à ses palefreniers. Féru d'idées nouvelles, le roi de Prusse entretint avec Voltaire des relations orageuses. Domestiqués, coiffés, frisotés, astiqués, apprivoisés et payés, les intellectuels se retrouvaient à leur insu dans des rôles de bouffons ou d'histrions. Le livre s'ouvre sur l'activité diplomatique d'un érudit à la cour de Louis XIV et se conclut par les réflexions de l'essayiste irlandais Edmund Burke sur les journées d'octobre. Ainsi apparaît un XVIIIe siècle tout en contraste, coincé entre la Glorieuse Révolution d'Angleterre de 1688 et la Révolution française de 1789. On insiste souvent de nos jours sur l'espace atlantique, mais on s'intéresse un peu moins à l'Europe continentale que l'on redécouvre ici. De la Suisse à la Pologne, de la Lituanie à la Russie, en passant par la Saxe et par la Prusse, cet ouvrage réunit les contributions de spécialistes allemands et français du XVIIIe siècle, dont un remarquable essai d'Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.
Download or read book Capitalistes et pouvoir au si cle des Lumi res written by Claude-Frédéric Lévy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Th mes et figures du Si cle des lumi res written by Raymond Trousson and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1980 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Correspondence written by Jan Borm and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though writers and readers have long agreed that travel does not only broaden the mind, but that it is also useful to report on such an experience, the question of what to report on and how has remained a matter of debate. To think of travel and travel writing as “foreign correspondence” is to apply, metaphorically, a phrase that has its own complex and overlapping history in journalism, politics, and international culture. The chapters of this volume focus on this notion, seen here as a dual problematic oscillating between the private and the public, whether as letters or other forms of writing sent from abroad. From Mandeville’s notorious Travels to fin de siècle Hispanic writing, this volume offers readings of accounts by early modern and more recent Lithuanian and Polish travellers, representations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire and India, Quixotic tropes in English travel writing about Spain, Galignani’s newspaper aesthetics, and several contributions on translation issues and the foreign as an idiom to be rendered in more familiar terms. The essays collected here thus all take foreign correspondence as their starting point, whether as letters or in other narrative forms. These texts are involved in complex webs of personal, political, social, and cultural negotiations between travellers and their hosts, as well as their presumed target audience; a key aspect of the rhetorics of foreign correspondence, as the chapters of this volume also go to show.
Download or read book Literature in Society written by Regina Rudaitytė and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe but also perform and thus create and transform reality? Is literature a mere reflection/expression of society, a field and a tool of political manipulations, a playground to exercise ideological and social power? Herbert Grabes’ seminal essay “Literature in Society/Society and Its Literature”, which opens this volume, perfectly captures the essential functions of literature in society, whether it be Derridean belief in a revolutionary potential of literature, “the power of literature to say everything”, or Hillis Miller’s view of literature having the potential to create or reveal alternative realities; or, according to Grabes, the ability of literature “to offer to society a possibility of self-reflection by way of presenting a double of what is held to be reality”; and, last but not least, the ability of literature “to considerably contribute to the joy of life by enabling a particular kind of pleasure” – the pleasure of reading literature. The subsequent essays collected in this volume deal with complex relations between Literature and Society, approaching this issue from different angles and in various historical epochs. They are on diverse thematics and written from diverse theoretical perspectives, differing in scope and methodology.
Download or read book Travel and Ethics written by Corinne Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?
Download or read book Savoir et pouvoir du 17 au 20 si cle written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les Lumi res en mouvement written by Isabelle Moreau and published by ENS Editions. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre est le résultat d'un colloque international de 2008 sur la circulation des idées philosophiques et de l'information scientifique au XVIIIe siècle, et leur diffusion dans différents types d'écrits : essais philosophiques, manuscrits clandestins, romans, pamphlets, revues, poèmes, etc.
Download or read book Elephant Slaves Pampered Parrots written by Louise E. Robbins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history “adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France” by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals (American Historical Review). In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta’s Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In the streets of the city, one could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear. Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction. For Enlightenment-era Parisians, exotic animals piqued scientific curiosity and conveyed social status. Their variety and accessibility were a boon for naturalists like Buffon, author of Histoire naturelle. Louis XVI use his menagerie to demonstrate his power, while critics saw his caged animals as metaphors of slavery and oppression. In her engaging account, Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France’s obsession with exotic fauna, from the animals’ transportation and care to the inner workings of the oiseleurs’ (birdsellers’) guild. Based on wide-ranging research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots offers a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism.
Download or read book Science Fables and Chimeras written by Philippe Murillo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of science provides numerous examples of the way in which imagination, religion and mythology have sometimes helped and sometimes hindered scientific progress. While established ideas and beliefs clearly held back the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin, the intuitive knowledge found in mythology, art and religion has often proved useful in indicating new ways in which to explore or represent new knowledge of the world. Stories, fables and images have contributed to drawing a fuller picture of the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. The essays in this book, written by academics, writers and artists from various fields ranging from La Fontaine’s fables to nanotechnology and modern art, all point out the ways in which imagination works its way into all the fields of knowledge. At both ends of the spectrum, the hybrid nature of the chimera emerges as a pivotal symbol of both man’s predation instinct and a powerful symbol of his fear of extinction. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together visual representation, literature, mysticism, and science, will appeal to historians of science, philosophy, art and religion. It will also be of interest to scholars in cultural studies and anthropology. Drawing on recent scientific research and artistic production, the volume will additionally interest a wider audience wishing to learn more about man’s obsession and fascination with the potent symbolism of dinosaurs and dragons and all hybrid forms generated by the human imagination and recent technology.
Download or read book Innovation et tradition de la renaissance aux lumi res written by François Laroque and published by Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etudie l'innovation en France et en Angleterre dans les domaines politique et religieux ainsi que le passage de l'ancien au nouveau dans le domaine de la littérature anglaise chez Shakespeare, Fletcher, Massinger et Shelley.
Download or read book Le si cle des Lumi res L apog e 1750 1789 written by Albert Soboul and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les passions intellectuelles written by Élisabeth Badinter and published by Livre de Poche. This book was released on 2010 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les savants et les philosophes qui constituaient auparavant la République des Lettres écrivaient pour convaincre leurs pairs et dépendaient du pouvoir et des grands. Avec l'émergence, au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, de l ''opinion publique', le pouvoir change de camp. On voit naître chez les intellectuels trois "passions" successives qui font l'objet de cette trilogie. Dans les précédents volumes, nous avons vu les intellectuels solliciter les applaudissements du public puis revendiquer leur indépendance à l'égard des grands et un statut d'autorité morale. Dans ce dernier volume, on observe la naissance de la "volonté de pouvoir". Dans les années 1760, l'aura des philosophes est telle qu'ils sontcourtisés par les rois et les princes étrangers. On recherche leur onction pour se faire une réputation de souverain éclairé. Ils se rêvent conseillers du prince, voire souhaitent entrer en politique... Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvétius ou Voltaire vont mesurer, chacun à sa façon, les limites de leur pouvoir.
Download or read book Actes written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actes for [5th]-11th Congress issued as Collection de travaux de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences, [2]-[17].
Download or read book La lumi re au si cle des Lumi res aujourd hui written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A la fois scientifique, artistique et philosophique, La Lumiere au siecle des lumieres et aujourd'hui vise a confronter l'evolution de la connaissance et du developpement des techniques a celle de l'art et du gout, en s'appuyant sur les recherches et les decouvertes effectuees au XVIIIe siecle. La presentation simultanee d'oeuvres d'art, d'objets et de documents scientifiques, leur integration a l'histoire des idees, illustrent l'impact du developpement du savoir et de la methode scientifique dans l'evolution des mentalites qui conduisit a la mise en place d'une societe civile republicaine et democratique. Neurobiologiste, Jean-Pierre Changeux est professeur au College de France et a l'Institut Pasteur et membre de l'Academie des sciences.
Download or read book LUMIERES LES BE written by Christian Detain and published by Le Cavalier Bleu Editions. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Le siècle des Lumières est le siècle de la raison », « Voltaire incarne l’esprit des Lumières », « Les Lumières ont préparé la Révolution française », « Les Lumières voulaient le progrès », « Le siècle était libertin », « Les Lumières ont inventé les droits de l’homme »... Siècle de toutes les remises en question, des avis péremptoires et d'un nouvel individualisme, les Lumières ont souvent été idéalisées. Qu'était vraiment ce mouvement censé « éclairer » le monde et apporter liberté et épanouissement à l'être humain ?
