The French Philosophes And The People
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The French Philosophies And The People
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Author : Harry C. Payne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The French Philosophies And The People written by Harry C. Payne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Enlightenment categories.
The French Philosophes And The People
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Author : Harry Charles Payne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Freedom In French Enlightenment Thought
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Author : Mary Efrosini Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Freedom In French Enlightenment Thought written by Mary Efrosini Gregory and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Philosophy, French categories.
Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought examines how five eighteenth-century French theorists - Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Condorcet - kindled the flame of freedom in America and France. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually inspire the language in constitutions around the world. They held that citizens have certain inalienable rights that are dictated by natural law and endowed to all by our Creator; that these rights include equality before the law, justice, safety and security of persons and property, and freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. Montesquieu recommended three separate branches of government that function independently of each other. Diderot held that there is no true sovereign, except the nation; that there is no true legislator, except the people. Rousseau advised that the individual will must be subordinate to the general will and private interest to that of the community: he warned against legislators who act from their own financial interests and enact laws to aggrandize themselves. Voltaire believed that selfishness, greed, and the desire for luxury are not only part of human nature, but that they compel people to achieve, trade with others, search, explore, and invent: the passions are the engine that makes capitalism run and that stimulate all human endeavor. Condorcet, a champion of civil rights, boldly proclaimed equality for women, blacks, and the poor. The philosophes held that free and universal public education will permit more citizens to participate in the progress of the arts and sciences and will improve the standard of living among all strata of society. An unrestrained press permits citizens to make informed decisions. Their polemics have indeed changed the face of the world.
The Party Of Humanity
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Author : Peter Gay
language : en
Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1964 c1963
Release Date : 1964
The Party Of Humanity written by Peter Gay and has been published by New York, Knopf, 1964 c1963 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Enlightenment categories.
“Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism” and “unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition.” In this provocative book-at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic-Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusions from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment-Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot-to the esteem they deserve. The nine related essays in The Party of Humanity fall into three divisions: three are on Voltaire, presenting the great philosophe as a tough-minded, realistic man of letters who tried to reshape his world, rather than as a merely brittle and shallow wit. Then, three essays discuss the French Enlightenment as a whole and seek for the unity underlying the diversity of tempers and attitudes among its leaders. The last three, which include Mr. Gay’s well-known critique of Carl Becker’s The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers, challenge some widely accepted views of the Enlightenment. The longest chapter here is a detailed examination of Rousseau and his reputation among his interpreters. What all nine essays have in common, apart from their portrayal of the philosophes as serious and engaged partisans of humanity, is that they are essays in the social history of ideas; they all treat ideas as inseparable from the specific social and cultural setting from which they emerge, and which they affect.”- Publisher
Badiou And The Philosophers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Badiou And The Philosophers written by and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
Between 1965 and 1968, the celebrated French philosopher Alain Badiou hosted a televised series in which he interviewed some of the most influential contemporary philosophers of the period, including Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Henry and Michel Serres. This book presents the first English-language translation of those interviews. Although Badiou had yet to publish the books that would go on to mark him out as the leading thinker of his generation (Being and Event and Logics of Worlds), his unique approach and highly original ideas are present in each discussion and the interviews present his philosophical origins in a lively and engaging context. More importantly these highly accessible and entertaining interviews provide a snapshot of French philosophy in the 1960s, setting the scene for the very public and political context of philosophy in the period immediately preceding the events of May '68, where philosophy played a crucial role. The book includes a new essay by Badiou in which he reflects on the project 30 years on.
Turning On The Mind
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Author : Tamara Chaplin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-12
Turning On The Mind written by Tamara Chaplin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12 with History categories.
In 1951, the eight o’clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century, more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its practitioners—including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault, Lyotard, and Lévy—had aired on French television. According to Tamara Chaplin, this enduring commitment to bringing the most abstract and least visual of disciplines to the French public challenges our very assumptions about the incompatibility of elite culture and mass media. Indeed, it belies the conviction that television is inevitably anti-intellectual and the quintessential archenemy of the book. Chaplin argues that the history of the televising of philosophy is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. Linking this history to decolonization, modernization, and globalization, Turning On the Mind claims that we can understand neither the markedly public role that philosophy came to play in French society during the late twentieth century nor the renewed interest in ethics and political philosophy in the early twenty-first unless we acknowledge the work of television. Throughout, Chaplin insists that we jettison presumptions about the anti-intellectual nature of the visual field, engages critical questions about the survival of national cultures in a globalizing world, and encourages us to rethink philosophy itself, ultimately asserting that the content of the discipline is indivisible from the new media forms in which it has found expression.
The Philosophes And Post Revolutionary France
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Author : John Lough
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1982
The Philosophes And Post Revolutionary France written by John Lough and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The religious scepticism and materialism which characterized the thinking of the "Philosophes", whose pre-revolutionary luminaries included Voltaire and Rousseau, helped bring about the intellectual climate conducive to revolution. This book examines how the events after 1789 affected the school.
French Philosophers Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Merrick Whitcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
French Philosophers Of The Eighteenth Century written by Merrick Whitcomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with Philosophy, French categories.
The Philosophes And The People
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Author : Harry C. Payne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Philosophes And The People written by Harry C. Payne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Encyclopedists categories.
The Philosophers And The French Revolution
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Author : Pestonji Ardesir Wadia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
The Philosophers And The French Revolution written by Pestonji Ardesir Wadia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Encyclopedists categories.