Thomas Jefferson On Taste And The Fine Arts
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Thomas Jefferson On Taste And The Fine Arts
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Thomas Jefferson On Taste And The Fine Arts written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with History categories.
Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person—especially a Virginian. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music, and criticism, considered as a sort of meta-art. Knowledge of such arts was indispensible because each person, thought Jefferson, was equipped with a faculty of taste as well as ratiocination and a moral-sense faculty—each of which required cultivation for human thriving. An uncultivated imagination would severely impair ratiocination and moral sensitivity. This book is the first book-length attempt to flesh out and critically assess Jefferson’s views on taste and the Fine Arts. It is a must read for any serious biographer of Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect
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Author : Frederick Doveton Nichols
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1978
Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect written by Frederick Doveton Nichols and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Architecture categories.
Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson's many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect investigates the many influences on--and of--the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson's personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson's contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect.
Thomas Jefferson On American Indians
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2024-09-03
Thomas Jefferson On American Indians written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jefferson’s views on Indians were characterized by ambivalence. Jefferson both loved and hated Native Americans, because he loved Native Americans. Jefferson was, through his father Peter, exposed early on and directly, though likely infrequently, to mysterious but congenial Indigenes, and he came to respect profoundly their courage, physical endurance, artistry, integrity, and most importantly, their large love of liberty, even if they were “uncivilized.” So impressed by Indians culture was Jefferson that he made their nature and culture objects of study in his ‘Notes on Virginia.’ Though uncivilized, Indians showed marked signs of being readily civilizable. Thus, Jefferson, qua politician and philosopher, hoped that they would mix their blood with Whites and become part of what he saw as a great American “empire for liberty.” Miscegenation meant integration, willful or by force, into American culture and abandonment of Aboriginal ways and their radically different way of seeing the land upon which they lived, which Natives could only grudgingly accept. Was Jefferson’s Indian policy, though guided by true concern for their wellbeing, genocidal? This book ultimately aims to answer that question.
Thomas Jefferson Among The Arts
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Author : Eleanor Davidson Berman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Thomas Jefferson Among The Arts written by Eleanor Davidson Berman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Aesthetics, American categories.
Thomas Jefferson In Paris The Ministry Of A Virginian Looker On
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Thomas Jefferson In Paris The Ministry Of A Virginian Looker On written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with History categories.
Jefferson’s years in France as minister plenipotentiary were a time of large edification. He approached his ministry as a “looker on”: Jefferson, while in France, always kept a critical distance from events, so that he could measure and critically examine them from the perspective of a dispassionate natural philosopher. Being dispassionate, Jefferson was pulled into events only insofar as circumstances required him to do so. Yet his “adventures” from his critical distance (e.g., his trip to London to meet the king, his ventures in the salons of Paris, and his travels through Southern France, Northern Italy, the Rhineland, and the Netherlands) were many, and varied. He even, at times, lost his critical, looker-on perspective from distance as he allowed himself to become immersed in events, as in the case of his relationship with lovely Italian artist and musician Maria Cosway.... > This book is a portal into the mind of Thomas Jefferson, as looker-on, during his tenure in Paris. Why was Jefferson so eager to accept the ministry to Paris? What was his impression of the great city and its people while he stayed? What lessons, while in Paris, did he learn which he could transport to Virginia and his country? Those and other questions Holowchak aims to answer in this book.
Thomas Jefferson S Philosophy Of Education
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Thomas Jefferson S Philosophy Of Education written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with Education categories.
Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and wealth and in neglect of the wants and needs of the people. Instead, Jefferson proposed social reforms which would allow people to express themselves freely, dictate their own course in life, and oversee their elected representatives. His educational vision aimed to instantiate a progressive social climate only dreamed of by utopists such as Thomas More, James Harrington and Louis-Sébastian Mercier. This book offers a critical articulation of the philosophy behind Jefferson’s thoughts on education. Divided into three parts, chapters include an analysis of his views on elementary and higher education, an investigation of education for both the moral-sense and rational faculty, and an examination of education as lifelong learning. Jefferson’s educational rationale was economic, political and philosophical, and his systemic approach to education conveys a systemic, economic approach to living, with strong affinities to Stoicism. Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy of Education will be key reading for philosophers, historians and postgraduate students of education, the history of education and philosophy.
Thomas Jefferson S Notes On The State Of Virginia A Prolegomena
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Thomas Jefferson S Notes On The State Of Virginia A Prolegomena written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Why did Jefferson write 'Notes on the State of Virginia'? There are today two common theses. The first, the Alphabet-Soup Thesis, maintains that the book is more or less a loose collection of notes in answer to the 22 queries given by French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois. Jefferson’s altering the arrangement of his answers to the questions is a matter of allowing for a smoother “narrative” for his answers, but other than that, one ought to be cautious not to read too much into his restructuring. The second, the Deconstructionist Thesis, is that meticulous deconstruction of the text reveals a latent thesis, which Jefferson, consciously or subconsciously, kept from his readers. Both views are problematic. The former cannot explain why Jefferson fell so deeply into the project, rearranged Marbois’ questions so that the book would flow smoothly from nature to culture, and continually revise his often-lengthy answers, even after the Stockdale edition in 1787. The latter suffers from the fact that Jefferson tended never to write elliptically. "Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’: A Prolegomena" is an attempt to provide an alternative, “dialectical” reading to current interpretations of the book. The book, Holowchak asserts, is neither a simple omnium gatherum nor is its message accessible only through deconstruction. There is an obvious movement from nature (Gr., 'phusis') in the first seven queries to culture (Gr., 'nomos') in the remaining 16 queries, but that “movement” is not linear. Early naturalistic queries set up neatly Jefferson’s discussion of the cultural aspects of Virginia, and Jefferson’s explication of the cultural aspects of Virginia cannot be grasped without frequent returns to the naturalistic queries, hence its dialectic. Jefferson’s aim overall, sums Holowchak, is the appropriation of what nature had given for humans’ use—to perfect the social state by taming nature and putting it to use for human betterment.
Thomas Jefferson Moralist
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Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-03-20
Thomas Jefferson Moralist written by M. Andrew Holowchak and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and most of his reading--when he was not immersed in politics--was for moral study. Jefferson once told his physician, Vine Utley, that he seldom went to sleep without first reading something morally inspiring. Some Jefferson scholars consider him at best a moral dilettante with incoherent views. Others see him as a Stoic, interested in virtue as measured by both intentions and outcomes, who in later life became an Epicurean, weighing pleasure versus ends. Drawing on a careful reading of his writings and an examination of his known readings on morality, this study argues that Jefferson developed early a consistent moral sense--Stoical in essence and focused on his own moral improvement--and maintained it throughout his life.
Thomas Jefferson S Home
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Author : John George Nicolay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Thomas Jefferson S Home written by John George Nicolay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Monticello categories.
The Architects Thomas Jefferson
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Author : Marshall B. Davidson
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2017-11-22
The Architects Thomas Jefferson written by Marshall B. Davidson and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Architecture categories.
Thomas Jefferson's influence is evident throughout the nation he helped found - from the democratic ideals he set down in the Declaration of Independence to the expansion of America's borders through the Louisiana Purchase. But the more tangible examples of his creative genius lie in his architecture - from the halls of the University of Virginia to his home on his "little mountain," Monticello. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Marshall B. Davidson, is the story of Jefferson the architect.