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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"denis diderot"”.
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Repression and reduction: the apparatchik's discourse in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge and George Orwell
… Toulaév, Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae, Denis Diderot’s Essai sur la vie de Sénèque and Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron, and George Orwell’s Burmese Days, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite the differences in time and culture, a thread runs …
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Le rôle de l’altérité dans la constitution du sujet : deux modes du rapport à l’autre dans l’œuvre de Denis Diderot
… plus particulièrement à la pensée de Diderot, figure marquante du XVIIIe siècle qui présente une conception d’un sujet dont la constitution dépend plutôt de ses rapports à autrui. Le rapport à un autre réel tel que présenté par Diderot montre la dépendance dans laquelle le sujet se …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… 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 recover the rich …
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The Sublime Actor and the Poetics of Emotions: Agency, Affect, and the Theatrical Sublime
… theories from Aristotle, Longinus, Adam Smith, Denis Diderot, and Sir Henry Irving to bear on performances by Marie Champmeslé, Sarah Siddons, and John Kemble, in plays that focus on the myth of Phaedra by Euripides, Jean Racine, Joanna Baillie, and Eugene O’Neill. These plays are of …
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Privileged, unique and temporary: interpreting aesthetic experiences of the painter-painting relationship through an address to and from practice
… examines the art historical hypotheses of Denis Diderot and Michael Fried on the role of aesthetic absorption in painting practice. It engages with these hypotheses through collaboration with six contemporary abstract painters in an address to and from painting practice. The collaboration …
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Journalism and the Problem of Progress
… encyclopedia of the modern age, that created by Denis Diderot in 1751, which had a controversial focus on revolution and other similar expressions of Enlightenment understanding). But the Eleventh was radically different. Its focus on an “ideology of transition” mirrored a contemporary set of …
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Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
… and Batty Langley as well as intellectuals Denis Diderot and Louis Dutens explored some of the same materials that piqued the curiosity of silversmiths Pierre-Simon Augustin Dupre, Francois-Thomas Germain, and Jacques Roettiers. Artisan Pierre de Fontanieu and chemists Antoine Laurent de …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
This dissertation develops a conceptual history of human anatomy, both as a discipline and as an epistemological model. Building on recent scholarship in the history of science, I argue that the basic organization of anatomical inquiry inspired a number of literary productions during the …