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The Military Enlightenment
The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically
new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces
from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking
discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder,
the military \"band of brothers,\" and soldierly heroism all found
their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed
forces.
Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled
to learn of the many ways in which French military officers,
administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and
political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
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Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but
conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most
resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries,
among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots of their
alienation from existing society and determination to change it
extend back to the very heart of the Enlightenment, when Spinoza
and other philosophers living in a rigid, hierarchical society
colored by a deeply hostile theology first developed a modern
revolutionary consciousness.
Leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel shows how the
radical ideas in the early Marx's writings were influenced by this
legacy, which, he argues, must be understood as part of the Radical
Enlightenment. He traces the rise of a Jewish revolutionary
tendency demanding social equality and universal human rights
throughout the Western world. Israel considers how these writers
understood Jewish marginalization and ghettoization and the edifice
of superstition, prejudice, and ignorance that sustained them. He
investigates how the quest for Jewish emancipation led these
thinkers to formulate sweeping theories of social and legal reform
that paved the way for revolutionary actions that helped change the
world from 1789 onward-but hardly as they intended.
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Averroes, Kant and the origins of the Enlightenment : reason and revelation in Arab thought
Compares the ideologies of 12th-century Arab philosopher Averroes to Immanuel Kant, focusing on their respective implications on two social groups: the elite in the case of Averroes and the public in the case of Kant.
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Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830
This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa. As Lockhart reveals, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Taking as its point of departure a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from this period, Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy traces its core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.
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Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830
\"This pathbreaking study of Italian stage works reconsiders a crucial period of music history: the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. In her interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music and vice versa. As Lockhart concludes, the animated statue became a fundamental figure within aesthetic theory and musical practice during the years spanning 1770-1830. Animation, plasticity, and music in Italy, 1770-1830 begins with an exploration of a repertoire of Italian ballets, melodramas, and operas from around 1800, then traces and connects a set of core ideas between science, philosophy, theories of language, itinerant performance traditions, the epistemology of sensing, and music criticism.\"--Provided by publisher.
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History and the Enlightenment
Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his career-many hitherto inaccessible, one never before published, all demonstrating his piercing intellect, urbane wit, and gift for elegant, vivid narrative. This collection focuses on the writing and understanding of history in the eighteenth century and on the great historians and the intellectual context that inspired or provoked their writings. It combines incisive discussion of such figures as Gibbon, Hume, and Carlyle with broad sweeps of analysis and explication. Essays on the Scottish Enlightenment and the Romantic movement are balanced by intimate portraits of lesser-known historians whose significance Trevor-Roper took particular delight in revealing.
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The Radical Enlightenment in Germany
This volume investigates the impact of Radical Enlightenment thought on German culture during the eighteenth century. It takes recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure and debates the precise nature of Enlightenment.
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