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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Voltaire"”.
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Lovers of the Enlightenment: Emilie & Voltaire
… 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 passions for science, philosophy and intellectual discourse. Emilie was an extraordinary woman, writing what is still …
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Voltaire Et Les Noirs. (French Text)
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Voltaire Fraga: fotografias escolhidas, memórias reveladas. Uma poética do desesquecimento
… photograph exhibitions by Bahian photographer Voltaire Fraga – first, curated in 1999 by Célia Aguiar, and second, curated by Diógenes Moura between 2008-2009 – while attempting to establish the existing relationship between memory, forgetfulness and photography in its role as memory keeper. As …
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"""La Pucelle"" de Voltaire: A Study of motifs and metaphors"
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Η ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΙΟΚΑΣΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ VOLTAIRE ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΚΙΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΙΔΕΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΦΩΤΙΣΜΟΥ
… ΝΑ ΚΑΤΑΔΕΙΞΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΕΙ ΟΤΙ Η ΙΟΚΑΣΤΗ ΤΟΥ VOLTAIRE ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΑΠΑΡΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΟΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΕΣΤΗΜΕΝΩΝ ΑΞΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΟΧΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΟΤΙ, ΜΕ ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟ, ΠΛΗΤΤΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑ ΜΕ ΣΚΟΠΟ ΝΑ ΑΛΛΑΞΕΙ ΤΙΣ ΔΟΜΕΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΟΦΕΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΝΟΛΟΥ. ΠΡΟΩΘΕΙ ΕΠΙΣΗΣ ΤΗΝ …
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Voltaire: From Sacrificial to Judicial System in the Play The Orphan of China
Voltaire began his career in literature by writing for the theater. One of his plays, The Orphan of China, was an adaptation of a Chinese play, The Orphan of the Mansion Tchao. Many critics contend that in this play Voltaire is: 1. Propagating the spirit of the Enlightenment to the Europeans via …
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Depiction of Widow Immolation In Works by Montaigne, Voltaire, Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, and Verne
… dissuade widows from self-immolating in Zadig by Voltaire and La Chaumi├â┬¿re indienne by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Chapter 4 criticizes the depiction of a widow's rescue from her husband's funeral pyre as an ethical imperative based on a simplified moral system in Jules Verne's Le Tour du monde …
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L’Evolution de la Position du Philosophe, Intellectuel Engagé A Travers les Exemples de Voltaire et des Nouveaux Philosophes
… cette nouvelle image du philosophe véhiculée par Voltaire et celles des Nouveaux Philosophes en France dans les années 1970, il n’y a pas grande différence. Le terme « nouvelle philosophie » ou « nouveaux philosophes » est pour la première fois apparu dans le journal <em>Les Nouvelles …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… of the relevant works of its main participants: Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Pierre Charles Levesque, August Ludwig Schlözer and Johann Gottfried Herder. By contextualising their Russian writings in terms of wider Enlightenment discourse on philosophic history and political reform, it seeks to …
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Les tendances de la nature en éducation
… car, quoique la plupart d'eux, y compris Voltaire et Rousseau mêmes, ne s'occupèrent pas de l’enseignement public, c'était la Révolution qui établit l'éducation primaire sous l'administration de l'Etat pour tout citoyen et citoyenne. Voltaire avait une grande influence sur la vie de son …
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First- versus second-language reading comprehension of literary texts
… of two different contes philosophiques by Voltaire, one in French and the other in English. Literal or referential comprehension was measured using a written recall procedure and inferential comprehension was evaluated via a multiple-choice task and a character analysis task.
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Représentations de la femme dans les récits orientalisants français du dix-huitième siècle
… Diderot, Mme de Genlis, Hamilton, Montesquieu et Voltaire. Les chapitres analysent cinq types de femmes regroupées selon leur rôle narratif. Dans le chapitre premier, j’étudie les figures féminines orientales dans Zadig et La princesse de Babylone de Voltaire. J’y tiens compte de la façon dont la …
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Voltaire's Attitude Toward Geology
Voltaire's geological observations in some of his essays, in particular the Disseration sur les changements arrives dans notre globe et sur les petrifications qu'on pretend en etre encore les temoignages (1746) and Les Singularites de la nature (1768), have not been analyzed. This study describes …
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Code, performance and ideology : the dialogue of reception as dramatic praxis in Voltaire's tragedies
… prixis and the ideological systems which shape Voltaire’s tragic oeuvre. This study takes the position that these texts are multi-voiced, open-ended and performance-directed. The analytical approach taken draws from semiotic, Marxist and feminist critical techniques. Thirteen plays were chosen …
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Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet
… personalities such as Moreau de Maupertuis, Voltaire, and the Marquise Gabrielle-Emilie du Châtelet. Scholars have traditionally published or written little about Gabrielle-Emilie du Châtelet outside of her associations with Voltaire, due to her few formal publications. Recently, the …
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