471 results for '"Crovisier, Jacques'

Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we...

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...

Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self...

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...

La Libération a-t-elle été " trahie " - comme nombre de résistants l'ont déploré ? Le dynamisme de la France libre et des maquis n'a-t-il pas été gâché en 1944 et dans les années suivantes ? Les...

En exil à Londres après 1871, condamné à mort par contumace pour avoir participé activement à la Commune de Paris, Jules Vallès s'invente un double, Jacques Vingtras, dont il raconte l'enfance. Voilà...

How an enigmatic masterpiece of the French Revolution became a talisman of the revolutionary spirit in our own timeJacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat depicts the painter’s friend and fellow...

An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up.Gerhard Richter explores the...

We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the...

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A...

An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction―stories set after...

"What does it mean to practice philosophy as a spiritual exercise? When Pierre Hadot made this comparison, he argued that the goal of philosophy was to cultivate a different relationship with nature...

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the...

"Comment parler, pourquoi écrire? Voilà de quoi discutent, en cette fin du Ve siècle avant J.-C., deux Athéniens étendus près d'un gattilier en fleur, à l'ombre d'un platane sous lequel coule une...

Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Art's Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of...

Product Description L'ouvrage se propose d'introduire à la philosophie de Spinoza à partir du rapport intrinsèque qu'elle entretient avec la politique.Après une mise en situation de Spinoza dans...

Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the...

Redrawing the Lines was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original...

When Fran,cois Mitterand was elected President in 1981, bringing the Socialist Party to power for the first time in decades, two hundred thousand voters danced around the Bastille. But their euphoria...

A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceansIn The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating...