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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"French Enlightenment"”.
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More Equal Than Others: Animals in the Age of the Human Rights Aristocracy
… naturalism—and illustrate, with the writings of French Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Baptiste Salaville and Jean-Claude Delamétherie, how these currents informed their accounts of human and animal rights, respectively. Second, I show the importance of this insight from intellectual history by …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… negotiable in New Orleans. Beginning with the French founding of New Orleans in 1718, and concluding with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, this study explores how these people, who first appear in the 1730s, became a self-conscious, identifiable community in an Atlantic world …
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Nietzsche’s Europeanism: A Critical Genealogy
… facilitated his positive reassessment of the (French) Enlightenment, his self-professed ‘anti-antisemitism’, and his emergence as a cosmopolitan free spirit. My thesis provides a sustained, in-depth critique of this reading. Its aim is to revise the standard interpretation of the ‘good …
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An Archaeology of the Fragment: The Transition from the Antique Fragment to the Historical Fragment in French Architecture Between 1750 and 1850
Although architects before the time of the French Enlightenment often made use of historical forms in their designs, this practice radically changed between the years 1750 and 1850. The fragment itself changed, as did the ways it was used. The transformation of the fragment followed three stages: …
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The elusive faces of modernity : the invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition and the Temps Nouveaux pavilion
… the existence of a specific typology of the French Exposition Universelle grounded in the French Enlightenment and in its encyclopedist ideals. The present study claims that this type culminates in the 1867 Exhibition, when, for the first time, the Dideroan encyclopedist ideal and the …
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Chateaubriand's René as a Philosophical Reaction to the Enlightenment and Early Romantic Sentiment
… for the restoration of Christianity after the French Revolution, has been read as the founding text of the French Romantic movement. While this text did in fact serve to define many of the characteristics of French Romantic literature, simply labeling it as such is anachronistic and obscures …