Author : Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780900547768
Author : Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN : 9780951016602
Author : Dennis Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134977654
`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1988-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521316323
This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Author : British Library
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3111576698
Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1892941139
The French Revolution rang the death knell not only for a form of society, but also for a way of feeling and of living; and it is still not clear as yet what did we gain from the changes. Benjamin Constant was one of the first to draw up this dark diagnosis. "We no longer know how to love, neither to believe, nor to want. As a result, Heaven no longer offers hope, the earth dignity, the heart refuge." But is it enough to deplore it? Constant does not think so, and having become the first French thinker of democracy, he undertakes to seek remedies to the problem: a political framework that guarantees the dignity of the individual without dissolving the social bond; a religion stripped of its oppressive forms; a love finding the place which is due to values, higher than "all the thrones of the earth."
Author : Keith Aspley
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1982
Category : French literature
ISBN : 9780900547850
Author : D. C. Greetham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472107162
The distinguished annual in interdisciplinary textual studies
Author : J.A.W. Gunn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 077358224X
In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to political opponents. A sophisticated minority - including such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, and Guizot - recognized the need for something approaching the British political culture, but the wounds opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed. A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagreement that was the spirit of the British model had to await the Fifth Republic.
Author : Barry Taylor
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1904350313
In this volume seventeen scholars from Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and the US pay tribute to the memory of Roger M Walker, Professor of Spanish at Birkbeck College, London. His publications were chiefly in the field of Old Spanish narrative epic, romance, hagiography and the Libro de buen amor and the editors have sought to assemble contributions on these topics. Versions of some of the papers were presented at the symposium held in Professor Walkers memory at Birkbeck College in October 1999.
