[PDF] Diderot And The Time Space Continuum eBook

Author : Merle L. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Leon Schwartz
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 9780838623770

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Explores the many articles that appeared in the Encyclopedie, of which Diderot was the editor, in order to more clearly define and interpret the philosopher's true attitudes. Although many of these articles were indeed harsh in their treatment of the Jews, Diderot's thinking evolves to reveal a genuine regard for this group.

Author : Mary Efrosini Gregory
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Evolution in literature
ISBN : 0415955513

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John L. Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521385411

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This book investigates, through the problem of the earth's shape, part of the development of post-Newtonian mechanics by the Parisian scientific community during the first half of the eighteenth century. In the Principia Newton first raised the question of the earth's shape. John Greenberg shows how continental scholars outside France influenced efforts in Paris to solve the problem, and he also demonstrates that Parisian scholars, including Bouguer and Fontaine, did work that Alexis-Claude Clairaut used in developing his mature theory of the earth's shape. The evolution of Parisian mechanics proved not to be the replacement of a Cartesian paradigm by a Newtonian one, a replacement that might be expected from Thomas Kuhn's formulations about scientific revolutions, but a complex process instead involving many areas of research and contributions of different kinds from the entire scientific world. Greenberg both explores the myriad of technical problems that underlie the historical development of part of post-Newtonian mechanics, which have only been rarely analyzed by Western scholars, and embeds his technical discussion in a framework that involves social and institutional history politics, and biography. Instead of focusing exclusively on the historiographical problem, Greenberg shows as well that international scientific communication was as much a vital part of the scientific progress of individual nations during the first half of the eighteenth century as it is today.

Author : Robert Eccleshall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780719035692

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This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability.

Author : Phoebevon Held
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351577026

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Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.