Diderot the Testing Years, 1713-1759
Author | : Arthur M. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781376152265 |
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Author | : Arthur M. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781376152265 |
Author | : Arthur McCandless Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1957 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur McCandless Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Otis Fellows |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782600039369 |
Author | : Robert Zaretsky |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674240863 |
In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.
Author | : Susan G. Bell |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804711715 |
This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.
Author | : Foster Stockwell |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2007-11-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0786437723 |
Throughout history, humans have sought ways not only to acquire but to preserve knowledge. From when to plant crops to who begat whom, even the earliest people worked to gather and store information. Today, computers and other technologies have almost completely changed the world of information access and storage. This history traces the development of knowledge-collecting from early humans, whose minds served as repositories of culture and lore, through the first libraries and encyclopedias, to the many advances of the twentieth century. Ironically it is with these latest advances that the preservation of knowledge has foundered. For example, CD-ROMs can last no doubt for decades--but the software programs that run them will not, because they are constantly being upgraded. Both well-known and obscure pieces of the information story are explored in this work. From Diderot's encyclopedia, to anonymous librarians of the ancient world, the people who created information storage systems and the systems themselves are all presented. Fully indexed.
Author | : Graeme Garrard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134662246 |
This book discusses the Counter-Enlightenment, from its origins in Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences through to contemporary debates about postmodernism and the relationship between liberalism and Enlightenment.
Author | : A. C. Grayling |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802718868 |
The epic story of the interlocking struggles to achieve the individual rights and freedoms that characterize Western civilization, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals. Perhaps the hallmark of western civilization over the past five hundred years, writes A. C. Grayling, is the series of liberation struggles without which the ordinary citizen in Western countries would not enjoy the rights and freedoms we now take for granted. They began with the often violent battle to allow independent thought, uncontrolled by the Church, which led in time to political freedom as monarchies were gradually replaced by more representative forms of government. These in turn made possible the abolition of slavery, rights for working men and women, universal education, the enfranchisement of women, and much more. Each of these struggles was a memorable human drama, and Grayling skillfully interweaves the stories of celebrated and little-known heroes alike-from Martin Luther and John Locke to the sixteenth-century French scholar Sebastien Castellio and the nineteenth-century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The triumphs and sacrifices of those who dared to oppose authority ring loudly down the ages, proving how hard-won each successive victory has been. And yet, as Grayling persuasively shows in a cautionary coda, democratic governments under pressure have often thought it necessary to restrict rights in the name of freedom, further underlining how precious they are. Toward the Light of Liberty is, thus, particularly relevant as we head toward an election season in which our own civil liberties will surely be an issue.
Author | : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1980-09-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521299558 |
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.