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Showing 1 to 20 of 495 for “"Enlightenment"”.
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Lovers of the Enlightenment: Emilie & Voltaire
This original play, a full-length drama in two acts, is the story of the last 18 months in the life of Emilie du Châtelet. It explores the relationship between Emilie and Voltaire, who was her lover for 15 years. Theirs was a romance of not only the heart, but also of the mind, as they shared their …
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Radical enlightenment in German literature 1771-1811
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and social movement that had a profound impact on the development of Western society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the roles of reason, …
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Enlightenment: error & experiment: Henry Cavendish's Electrical researches
I have attempted two major tasks in this thesis. First, I argue that Deborah Mayo’s Error Statistical epistemology makes an excellent tool for historical research into experimental episodes. This is because it focuses the historian’s eye on the nitty gritty details of experimental arguments, …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
… demonstrated that the liberal side of the Enlightenment had a life in Virginia that went beyond the Founders' generation, and that the Enlightenment in the South offered possibilities for social and political reform. The primary types of reform animating liberal elite reformers in this …
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
This study is based on fieldwork in Mandalay, Burma and on the study of Theravada Buddhist texts. Religious, cultural, and social realities are contrasted with the doctrinal foundations of the Theravada Buddhist tradition taking into account indigenous perceptions and cosmological computations of …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
Important tenets of Enlightenment thought, specifically natural theology and philosophical naturalism, mark both the libretto and certain aspects of the music of Haydn's Creation. The opening chapters of the dissertation establish the philosophical, historical, literary, and musical milieu as …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
… in relation to the cultural shift of the Enlightenment. The presupposition of the authority of the Word of God is the concept that bridges Whitefield’s preaching and presuppositional apologetics. Chapter 1 presents the research questions narrowing the topic. This section also presents …
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Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment
… between the development of rhetoric in regional enlightenment centres, in terms of both university and club activity, and its development and progression in the traditional institutions of Scotland: the parliament, the church and the law. The first three chapters focus on Aberdeen, Edinburgh and …
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Isaiah Berlin and the problem of counter-enlightenment liberalism.
… political thought reads like a scion of the Enlightenment, albeit with a pronounced Cold War inflection, his work in the history of ideas appears to indict the Age of Reason as partially responsible for the rise of totalitarianism. As a liberal thinker, therefore, Berlin seems Janus-faced. He …
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
This study discusses four British, French, and German women authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
… political belief that emerged in the European Enlightenment. Specifically, I explore how thinkers in the period c. 1660–c.1790 understood the relationship between faith, science and philosophy. Their various approaches to this issue generated further debate about the limits of freedom of …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
My dissertation explores two critical German philosophical concepts: Bildung (self-cultivation) and die schöne Seele (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic examination of the relationship between this philosophy and the institution of the …
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… especially its ""initial phase,"" the Chinese Enlightenment (1910s-1920s). It examines the thought of the highly controversial thinker and writer Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), whose work had been profoundly influential during the Enlightenment, but was later marginalized due to political reasons. It …
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Early American travel writers on Spain
This study maps out a discourse about Spain that, disseminated by travel writings, emerged and developed in the United States between the Revolutionary War and the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Specifically, it analyzes the shift from a politically-centered to a spiritually- or …
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August Ludwig Schlözer and Enlightenment in the ‘Age of Parallels’
… historical parallels addressed the crisis of Enlightenment in the late-eighteenth century and how ‘northern’ (i.e. northern, central and eastern) Europe was re-conceptualised by Schlözer on the symbolic map of the Enlightenment. The dissertation argues that Schlözer’s lifelong scholarly …
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OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS
… towards a cross-disciplinary poetics of Enlightenment opera, I show that dramma per musica actively reconfigures a neoclassical tradition in flux alongside the century’s noisiest literary revisionist movement, reimagining theatrical praxis as part of a broader poetics of arts and letters.
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