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.
Download or read book Les Enfants du Paradis written by Jill Forbes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Enfants du paradis, a magnificent picaresque saga of Parisian street life and popular culture, has been called the greatest film ever made. Completed during the Occupation, it nevertheless boasted the largest set ever to have been built in a French studio, a crowd of extras and, under the direction of Marcel Carné, some of the most accomplished technicians and actors available (including Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault as the central couple doomed to remain apart). Jill Forbes examines how, at a time of crisis, the film reimagined the history of France. Although Les Enfants du paradis is escapist, even fantastic, Forbes finds in it a radical, counter-cultural sensibility concerned with destabilising social hierarchies and prescribed sexual roles and questioning the opposition between life and art. Vibrant, joyous but also touched by melancholy, the film combines the traditions of high culture and popular theatre to remarkable effect.
Download or read book Voltaire written by Victor Thaddeus and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voltaire Anthology written by Voltaire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection containing Candide and the plays Alzire, Amelia, Brutus, Caliline, Mahomet, Mariamne, Merope, Nanine, Oedipus, Olympia, Orestes, Pandora, Semiramis, Socrates, The Orphan of China, The Prude, The Scotch Woman, and Zadig.
Download or read book New Family Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of the English Church and of the Principal Bodies of Dissenters with Answers to Each written by Johnson Grant and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summary of the History of the English Church and of the Sects which Have Departed from Its Communion written by Johnson Grant and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bossuet and His Contemporaries By the Author of A Dominican Artist i e Henrietta Louisa Farrer Afterwards Lear Etc written by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bossuet and His Contemporaries written by H. L. Sidney Lear and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bossuet and His Contemporaries written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Bossuet and his contemporaries by the author of A Dominican artist written by Henrietta Louisa Lear and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bossuet and His Contemporaries written by Henrietta Louisa Farrer Lear and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on Crimes and Punishments written by Cesare Beccaria and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Download or read book Voltaire Political Writings written by Voltaire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a selection of Voltaire's most interesting and controversial texts, many not previously translated into English, this edition of political writings includes the nature and legitimacy of political power, law and the social order, and the growing disorder in the French economy.
