Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521576154
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825623
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author : Lloyd Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110848834X
A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139827294
A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827324
Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.
Author : Maria DiBattista
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107028108
A historical overview of autobiography from the works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau to the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras.
Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827286
This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.
Author : Christopher D. Wraight
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826498604
A Reader's Guide to one of the most important and influential works of political thought in the history of philosophy.
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515041
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
Author : Esther Schor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826735
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
