Adriana Luna-Fabritius;Ere Nokkala;Marten Seppel;Keith Tribe;Adriana Luna-F...
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in earl...
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2023
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that'progressive'change was the outcome of'reforms'.'Reform'today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures.'Improvement'has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which'reform'is oriented. But the language of reform is today used of historical personalities and movements that did not themselves use the term, and who in many cases were not necessarily seeking the progressive change that we would understand today. The activities of'reform'were embedded in contemporary politics, and while'improvement'was part of a contemporary vocabulary, its real presence has been obscured by the range of natural languages in which it was expressed. Contributors to this volume seek to establish what was meant by contemporary usage. Bringing together scholars of Russia, Southern, Western, Central and Northern Europe, this collection sheds new light on both common and divergent features of a political process too often treated as a uniform movement towards modernity. This volume is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Enlightenment studies, intellectual history, and conceptual history in early modern Europe. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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IMPORTANCIA DEL CONTEXTO HISTÓRICO EN LA FILOSOFÍA: EL CASO DE LA FILOSOFÍA MORAL DE DAVID HUME .
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Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía. jul2018, Issue 46, p233-247. 15p.
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Ordieres, Alejandro
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Empirismus und Ästhetik : Zur deutschsprachigen Rezeption von Hume , Hutcheson, Home und Burke im 18. Jahrhundert
Lore Knapp;Lore Knapp
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Europ...
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Empirismus und Ästhetik : Zur deutschsprachigen Rezeption von Hume , Hutcheson, Home und Burke im 18. Jahrhundert
2022; Vol. 00070
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe. Research foci of the Centre are at the moment aesthetics, discourses of history, cultures of learning and erudition, university history and not least the wide field of early Enlightenment as a field of experimentation and the foundation of cultural models for the Modern Age. The results of this research have been published since Autumn 1995 in the Centres'research publications series entitled University of Halle Series on the European Enlightenment. In addition, there have been relevant works produced outside the Centre. Two to four volumes are published annually (monographs, collected volumes, commentaries on sources).
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Empiricism--18th century - Philosophy--Germany--HistoryContent provider:
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New Essays on Phillis Wheatley
John C. Shields;Eric D. Lamore;John C. Shields;Eric D. Lamore
The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (17...
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New Essays on Phillis Wheatley
2011
The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work, let alone influence Romantic-period giants like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson once declared that “the compositions published under her name are below dignity of criticism.” In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. In these never-before-published essays , fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. The pieces in the first section show that perhaps the most substantial measure of Wheatley's multilayered texts resides in her deft handling of classical materials. The contributors consider Wheatley's references to Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics and to the feminine figure Dido as well as her subversive critique of white readers attracted to her adaptation of familiar classics. They also discuss Wheatley's use of the Homeric Trojan horse and eighteenth-century verse to mask her ambitions for freedom and her treatment of the classics as political tools. Engaging Wheatley's multilayered texts with innovative approaches, the essays in the second section recontextualize her rich manuscripts and demonstrate how her late-eighteenth-century works remain both current and timeless. They ponder Wheatley's verse within the framework of queer theory, the concepts of political theorist Hannah Arendt, rhetoric, African studies, eighteenth-century “salon culture,” and the theoretics of imagination. Together, these essays reveal the depth of Phillis Wheatley's literary achievement and present concrete evidence that her extant oeuvre merits still further scrutiny. John C. Shields is Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. He is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book; Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics; and Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation; and awarded honorable mention in competition for the American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin Prize. As well, Shields serves as director of the Center for Classicism and American Culture and General Editor for the series of monographs on Classicism in American Culture to be published by the University of Tennessee Press. Eric D. Lamore is an assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and a contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry.
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Wheatley, Phillis--1753-1784--Criticism and i - American literature--African American authors --Content provider:
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Sullivan, James
Hume’s philosophical writings undermined earlier reliance on reason as a guide for act...
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World Philosophers & Their Works. Feb2000, p1-3. 3p.
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
Readioff, Corrina;Readioff, Corrina
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the Eng...
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
2023
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novelOffers detailed insight into the development and function of the epigraph from 1750 to 1850Demonstrates the enduring versatility of the epigraph and of paratextual approaches to literary criticismPresents a survey of pre-chapter paratext in English fiction first-published between 1750 and 1850, drawing upon a dataset of nearly 6000 novelsProvides case studies of epigraphs in the works of canonical authors (e.g. Radcliffe, Lewis, Scott, and Gaskell), and places these within a wider context of epigraphic and literary development in fiction by influential, though less well-known, writers (Chaigneau, Helme, Stannard Barrett, Gore)Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850 uncovers the early history of the epigraph, narrating the surprising story of how this long-overlooked feature morphed from moral didactic heading to Gothic tag-line to witty realist commentary within a single century. Adorning fictional narratives of rakes and sex workers, oppressed heroines and Jacobite heroes, the epigraph has been used by authors to preach, teach, amuse, or even completely misdirect their readers. Supported by a survey of pre-chapter paratext in nearly 6000 novels from 1750 to 1850, this monograph explores the changing influences upon and functions of epigraphs over time via detailed close readings and literary criticism. Focusing upon key generic developments, this book adopts a case-study style format to examine epigraphic usage in the works of canonical authors including Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and Elizabeth Gaskell alongside those of less well-known novelists such as William Chaigneau, Elizabeth Helme, and Catherine Gore.
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English fiction--19th century--History and criticism - English fiction--18th century--History and criticism - Epigraphs (Literature)Content provider:
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
Gianni Paganini;Margaret C. Jacob;John Christian Laursen;Gianni Paganini;Ma...
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic tex...
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
2020
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. After Ira Wade's pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political , and social critique.
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Underground literature--Europe--Manuscripts--Congresses - Philosophy, Modern--History--Congresses - Philosophy (General) - Underground literature--Europe--History and criticism--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--19th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--17th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--18th century--CongressesContent provider:
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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
David Atkinson;Steve Roud;David Atkinson;Steve Roud
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteent...
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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
2023
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children's literature, and social history.
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Printers--Great Britain--History--18th century - English literature--18th century--History and criticism - Street literature--Great Britain--History and criticismContent provider:
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An Outline of Romanticism in the West
John Claiborne Isbell;John Claiborne Isbell
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas...
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An Outline of Romanticism in the West
2022
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or Germaine de Staël's Corinne ou l'Italie, Isbell provides a foundation through which to investigate core concepts, such as the continuum of Romance, the Romantic hero, and Romantic literature's characteristic repudiation of its own Romanticism. Unusually for a single-author monograph, the book includes both published and unpublished material covering Romantic creation across Europe and the two Americas. Identifying Romanticism as an international movement, Isbell seeks to emphasise a theme frequently ignored by many academics: the roots of Romanticism, and its variations, as a national art. His arguments are supported by extensive interrogations of the political and historical contexts that moulded the outlooks of the writers and artists central to the period. An Outline of Romanticism in the West underlines the interplay between nationalism, history, and artistic inspiration, and will therefore be of value to students and scholars of literature and history, as well as to general readers with an interest in Romanticism in the West.
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Romanticism--United States - Romanticism--Europe - RomanticismContent provider:
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian von Tschilschke;Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian...
What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople ...
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
2022; Vol. 00028
What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople and similar ‘protagonists of production'take before it became the subject of negative assessments in the epoch of industrialization? Focusing on the European Enlightenment movement with a special emphasis on Spain, this volume sheds light on how both male and female figures working in production are represented by novels, plays, economic tracts and in the press. Literary scholars, historians, and economists analyse how those portrayals are related to the history of economic thought, 18th-century economic discourse, and enlightened Political Economy. With an epilogue by Deirdre McCloskey.
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Commerce, Finance and Statecraft : Histories of England, 1600–1780
Benjamin Dew;Benjamin Dew
Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's e...
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Commerce, Finance and Statecraft : Histories of England, 1600–1780
2018
Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians – among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume – and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically–charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.
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Economic policy--Historiography--Early works to 1800 - Economics--England--History - Economic history--Historiography - Historians--England - Political science--England--HistoryContent provider:
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
Clorinda Donato;Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink;Clorinda Donato;Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met t...
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
2021
From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic “paper empires” that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.
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Translating and interpreting--History - Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism - Learning and scholarship--HistoryContent provider:
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Delicacy and Passion: Hume's Theory of Taste and the Ideologies of the Senses.
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Yearbook of Comparative Literature. 2016, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p283-313. 31p.
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Kenshur, Oscar
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Yearbook of Comparative Literature. 2016, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p283-313. 31p.
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Like his influential predecessor Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Hume argues that aesthetic taste...
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Delicacy and Passion: Hume's Theory of Taste and the Ideologies of the Senses.
Yearbook of Comparative Literature. 2016, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p283-313. 31p.
Like his influential predecessor Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Hume argues that aesthetic taste, unchanging over time, is rooted in sentiment rather than reason. This sensationalist doctrine, centering on the perceptual apparatus that we all share, might, at first glance, seem to democratize taste. But Hume is at pains to identify the rare attributes of a good critic. And although Dubos scorns the taste of critics in favor of le public, it turns out that his public, like Hume's good critics, is very much an elite. The real contrast between the two thinkers lies in their respective positions in conflicts between competing elites. In the Querelle de Homère, the Moderns, under the banner of reason, decry what they see as the irrational barbarism of the Homeric epics. Dubos's public, which, correctly in his view, continues to value Homer and other ancient authors, serves as a counterweight to such critics. In Hume's case, we need to carefully examine the relationship between the learned and the conversible worlds--that is, between intellectual and social elites. While Hume attempts to reconcile these two elites, he ultimately comes down on the side of the learned critics. In doing so, he subtly moves from a sensationalist to a rationalist theory of taste and derogates the conversible realm, a realm in which women rule as sovereigns but in which men of the world are also deficient in matters of taste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
Cobos-Sanchiz, David;López-Meneses, Eloy;Jaén-Martínez, Alicia;Martín-Padil...
Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
2023
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Föderalismus-Rhetorik-Dekonstruktionen – Rechtsdogmatik als Literaturdogmatik. : Instrumentalföderalismus in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als romantisch-lyrische Lesekonvention vor Gericht.
Rico David Neugärtner;Rico David Neugärtner
Im US-amerikanischen wie im deutschen Föderalismus gebrauchen Gerichte ›selbstbewusst‹...
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Föderalismus-Rhetorik-Dekonstruktionen – Rechtsdogmatik als Literaturdogmatik. : Instrumentalföderalismus in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als romantisch-lyrische Lesekonvention vor Gericht.
2023; Vol. 00006
Im US-amerikanischen wie im deutschen Föderalismus gebrauchen Gerichte ›selbstbewusst‹ dogmatische Topoi wie ›state dignity‹ oder ›Bundestreue‹, welche nicht im Verfassungstext enthalten sind. Diese ›ungeschriebenen‹ Figuren sind offen für ideenpolitische Instrumentalisierung: Sie dienen als Vehikel, um Vorstellungen von ›(Sub)Nationalstaatlichkeit‹, ›Demokratie‹ oder ›Freiheit‹ auszutarieren. Ihre politik-theoretische Einbettung im Modell des ›Bundes‹, Referenzfelder ihrer Verwendung (etwa Kulturpolitik, Umweltrecht, öffentliche Sicherheit, Personal und Finanzen, Wahlrecht, Verfassungsänderungen) und ihre rhetorisch-diskursiven Wirkungsbedingungen sind Gegenstände der vergleichenden Studie. Die Rhetorikanalyse erfolgt interdisziplinär: Das untersuchte Muster kreist um anthropomorphe, ›lyrische‹ Vorstellungen von ›Würde‹ und ›Treue‹. Unter Rückgriff auf die literaturwissenschaftliche Dekonstruktion analysiert das Buch die Kraft anthropomorpher Dogmatik in Recht und Literatur.
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Federal government--Germany - Federal government--United StatesContent provider:
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300 Jahre 'Robinson Crusoe' : Ein Weltbestseller und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte
Christine Haug;Johannes Frimmel;Bill Bell;Christine Haug;Johannes Frimmel;B...
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His nove...
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300 Jahre 'Robinson Crusoe' : Ein Weltbestseller und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte
2022
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure literature was born. These contributions examine the novel within the context of bookselling history, provide new interpretations, and shed light on its multifaceted adaptation history up into the twenty-first century.
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Literature--History and criticism - Robinsonades--History and criticismContent provider:
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Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe : Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
Berthold Over;Gesa zur Nieden;Berthold Over;Gesa zur Nieden
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing ...
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Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe : Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
2021; Vol. 00045
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.
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Opera--Europe--18th century - Pasticcio - Operas--18th centuryContent provider:
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Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Literaturen des 18. Jahrhunderts
Ottmar Ette;Ottmar Ette
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l'Europe des Lumi...
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Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Literaturen des 18. Jahrhunderts
2021
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l'Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, nach der (verlorenen) Einheit der Aufklärung und nach den transatlantisch verflochtenen Geschichten des 18. Jahrhunderts im Bewusstsein der Vielgestaltigkeit aufklärerischer Diskurse zwischen zwei Welten, Europa und Amerika, zu fragen. Gab es eine Aufklärung oder gab es deren viele? Mit einem deutlichen Schwerpunkt innerhalb der Romania will die Vorlesung ein Verständnis dafür wecken, auf welche Weise im „Siècle des Lumières“ inter- und transkulturelle Kontakte und Beziehungen im Bereich von Literatur, Philosophie und Kultur funktionierten und wie die literarischen Räume der Aufklärung transatlantisch in Bewegung gerieten. Ziel der Vorlesung ist es, aus vergleichender Sicht monokulturelle Bilder der Aufklärung wie der entstehenden Moderne zu hinterfragen.
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Romance-language literature--18th century - EnlightenmentContent provider:
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BAUMSTARK, MORITZ
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Journal of Scottish Philosophy. Spring2010, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p63-77. 15p.
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On Capitalism and Inequality : Progress and Poverty Revisited
Robert U. Ayres;Robert U. Ayres
Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of peopl...
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On Capitalism and Inequality : Progress and Poverty Revisited
2020
Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people's money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the planet in bad shape and leaving billions of people out in the cold. Wealth is now extremely mal-distributed, opportunity is far from equal, and upward social mobility has declined significantly in recent decades. This book reviews the evidence and arguments pro and con in considerable detail.The evidence is mixed. The main virtue of capitalism is its emphasis on competition as a driver of innovation and, thus, of economic growth. It is true that economic growth has accelerated in recent centuries, and it is true that billions of people have been lifted from poverty. But it is not necessarily true that intense “winner take all” competition in the marketplace is the explanation for growth. Neoclassical economic theory posits that self-interest is the primary motive for all economic decisions, leaving little room for cooperation and even less for altruism. The theory applies to an unrealistic “model” of human behavior, known as Homo economicus or “economic man”, whose characteristic activity is buying or selling.The reason for using the adjective word “social” – as in socialism” or “social service” or “social democracy” -- is, essentially, to deny those postulates of standard economic theory. Real humans are not rational utility maximizers (whatever that is) and very often do things that are not in their own personal best interests. This can happen because other interests, such as family loyalty, professional, religious, or patriotic duty, may take precedence. Real people rarely behave like Homo economicus, who has rivals but no friends. He (or she) does not trust anyone, hence cannot cooperate with others, and can never create, or live in, a viable social system (or marriage). Yet social systems, ranging from families and tribes to firms, cities, and nations do (and must) exist or civilization cannot exist. A viable social system must not allow “winner takes all”. It must reallocate some of the societal wealth being created by competitive activities to support the young, the old and the weak, because all of those people have equal rights, if not the same luck or the same skills.Both competition and cooperation have important roles to play. A hybrid capitalism involving both is the only viable solution. The book ends with a specific suggestion, namely Universal Basic Income, or UBI.
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Natural resources - Income distribution - Capitalism - Thermodynamics - EconomicsContent provider:
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Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century
Bethan Roberts;Bethan Roberts
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press web...
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Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century
2019
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its ‘place'– in multiple ways – in literary history as a work celebrated for ‘making it new', yet deeply engaged with the literary past. It argues that Smith's sonnets are constituted by three intertwined concerns: with tradition, place and the sonnet form itself, whereby the subjects of Smith's sonnets – across birds, rivers, the sea, plants and flowers – are bound up with the literary context in which she wrote. Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet shows that Smith's verse engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England. The book also illuminates Smith's place in posterity, as a popular poet – influencing figures ranging from Wordsworth and Coleridge to Constable – who was subsequently obscured in literary history. It reveals the complex processes underpinning Smith's reception and paradoxical position from the late eighteenth century to the present day, and shows that the appropriation of place itself was an important way in which aspects of literary tradition have been negotiated and understood by Smith, her predecessors, contemporaries and successors.
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Elegiac poetry, English--History and criticism - Sonnets, English--History and criticismContent provider:
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Petersen, Nis
Author of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understa...
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Ethics (Ready Reference series). Apr1994, p1-2. 2p.
Author of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). Hume worked to free ethics or morals from a metaphysical basis rooted either in religion or in natural law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society
Heikki Haara;Koen Stapelbroek;Mikko Immanen;Heikki Haara;Koen Stapelbroek;M...
The'Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History'of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual ...
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Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society
2020; Vol. 00001
The'Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History'of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History is a forum for frontline research of intellectual history broadly construed. HYIH promotes the study of intellectual history from a range of methodological and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The University of Helsinki has a long and distinguished tradition of research in the field of intellectual history. This journal endorses the work of the intellectual historians in Helsinki as well as intellectual history in general. It is committed to advancing original scholarship wide-ranging in scope and international in readership.
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Human rights - Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--EuropeContent provider:
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Those Who From Afar Look Like Flies : An Anthology of Italian Poetry From Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
Luigi Ballerini;Giuseppe Cavatorta;Luigi Ballerini;Giuseppe Cavatorta
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to p...
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Those Who From Afar Look Like Flies : An Anthology of Italian Poetry From Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
2017; Vol. 00001
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners as Villa and Cacciatore. Each section of this anthology, organized chronologically, is preceded by an introductory note and documents every stylistic or substantial change in the poetics of a group or individual. For each poet, critic, and translator a short biography and bibliography is also provided.
Subject terms:
Italian poetry--20th century--Translations into English - Italian poetry--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Price, John Valdimir
Reference
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Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. 2006, Vol. 2, p1568-1572. 5p.
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