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Del 335 - Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Nations and Nationalisms
France, Britain, Ireland and the eighteenth-century context
Inbunden, Engelska, 1995
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At a moment when nationalism is resurgent and stubbornly refuses to obey past predictions of its imminent demise, a scholarly return to the inaugurating eighteenth-century debates about nationalism, nations and the nation state seems not only desirable but necessary. This collection of essays surveys the issues under eight headings, with the French Revolution as a recurring reference point – not least because of the tension within the Revolution between national interests and universal aspirations, a tension that arguably continues to beset modern ideas of the nation. The volume offers a broad survey of current thinking on the eighteenth-century nation and the emerging nationalisms of the age. Clusters of essays provide extended treatment of the certain major topics, while others give unexpected sidelights involving figures as diverse as John Toland (Irish philosopher) and Brillat-Savarin (French gastronome and cosmopolitan nationalist). All combine to provide a clear focus on an area of eighteenth-century studies of continuing relevance to the modern reader in Europe and beyond.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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On ne peut penser les Lumières sans l’auteur du Contrat social et l’Emile, mais on ne saurait cependant nier que Rousseau dénonce les ‘philosophes modernes’ dans les termes les plus forts. Comment donc penser les rapports entre Rousseau et les philosophes?Dans ce volume les spécialistes de Rousseau vont au-delà des oppositions figées. Ils montrent comment le ‘citoyen de Genève’, à partir de sources philosophiques partagées avec ses contemporains, délimite le champ de la raison et construit une pensée politique rigoureuse, s’imposant ainsi à ceux qui souvent rejettent ses idées religieuses ou sa dénonciation des sciences et des arts. Confrontant la richesse irréductible de ses écrits, les auteurs proposent le portrait intellectuel d’un homme qui construit sa pensée à la fois avec et contre les philosophes, les obligeant à justifier ou à modifier leurs propres convictions face au défi que représente son œuvre.Figure emblématique de son siècle, Rousseau suscite l’indignation mais oblige aussi à des réexamens difficiles. C’est par l’étude de cette position à la fois centrale et marginale que l’on peut saisir la force de sa pensée et discerner ce qu’elle signifie pour nous.
Häftad, Franska, 2012
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Né en 1712, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ne cesse de nous interpeller: depuis cinquante ans, l’étude de son œuvre s’est diversifiée et renouvelée de façon remarquable.Dans ce recueil, treize spécialistes de Rousseau, venus d’horizons disciplinaires divers, présentent leur réflexion la plus récente, tantôt en revenant sur un écrit fondamental de l’auteur, tantôt en éclairant des aspects peu connus de son œuvre, tantôt en proposant une interprétation d’ensemble de son parcours exceptionnel. Rousseau et l’amitié, Rousseau copiste de musique, Rousseau et l’opinion publique, la difficile appropriation du premier tome des Confessions par les partisans du philosophe: les sujets abordés sont d’une grande richesse.Le volume offre au lecteur une série de nouvelles perspectives sur un auteur et un œuvre inépuisables. A l’orée de l’année Rousseau 2012, il intéressera tous ceux qui veulent connaître les dernières évolutions de la critique, qu’ils soient littéraires, philosophes ou musicologues. Le nom de Jean-Jacques Rousseau vit encore.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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Following his opposition to the establishment of a theatre in Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often considered an enemy of the stage. Yet he was fascinated by drama: he was a keen theatre-goer, his earliest writings were operas and comedies, his admiration for Italian lyric theatre ran through his career, he wrote one of the most successful operas of the day, Le Devin du village, and with his Pygmalion, he invented a new theatrical genre, the Scène lyrique (‘melodrama’). Through multi-faceted analyses of Rousseau’s theatrical and musical works, authors re-evaluate his practical and theoretical involvement with and influence on the dramatic arts, as well as his presence in modern theatre histories. New readings of the Lettre à d’Alembert highlight its political underpinnings, positioning it as an act of resistance to external bourgeois domination of Geneva’s cultural sphere, and demonstrate the work's influence on theatrical reform after Rousseau’s death. Fresh analyses of his theory of voice, developed in the Essai sur l’origine des langues, highlight the unique prestige of Italian opera for Rousseau. His ambition to rethink the nature and function of stage works, seen in Le Devin du village and then, more radically, in Pygmalion, give rise to several different discussions in the volume, as do his complex relations with Gluck. Together, contributors shed new light on the writer’s relationship to the stage, and argue for a more nuanced approach to his theatrical and operatic works, theories and legacy.
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''...discusses virtually all the musical writings which figure in this tome of the Oeuvres completes and may even be read as a companion volume, providing a key to the understanding of its various texts...O''Dea''s vividly textured and finely nuanced reading of Rousseau''s musical imagination plainly does complement the Pleiade collection in two striking ways...it offers a general interpretation of the place of the philosophy of music in Rousseau''s thought that is addressed to concepts which flit in and out of particular works, articulated in a voice whose clarity of tone is unmatched by a chorus of editors. Second, it pursues its case across a range of texts spread far beyond the limits of any collection of Rousseau''s essays on music.'' - Robert Wokler, French Literature This new study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggests that his early articles on music for the Encyclopidie give a unique insight into his thinking on aesthetics, affectivity and desire. Rousseau is shown as moving subsequently between two opposed tendencies. He celebrates the voice as the vehicle for the most intense moments of human experience but also frequently attacks the surrender to passion implicit in that celebration, denouncing the arts and arguing that women must be confined to the domestic sphere.