Catherine The Great And The French Philosophers Of The Enlightenment

Author : Inna Gorbatov
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781933146034

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Catherine the Great and the French Philosophers of the Enlightenment by Inna Gorbatov Pdf

This research monograph is the result of many years of archival investigation in Russia, France and elsewhere into the nature of Catherine the Great's involvement with the French Enlightenment. Professor Gorbatov's conclusions go far beyond the consensus of philosophic and cultural interests masking an authoritarian and, at times, barbarous emerging European power and delves instead into Catherine's fascination with French political and social ideals. Catherine's thirty-four year reign was marked by a furious wholesale consumption of French arts and objets as well as a lavish patronage of French artists and philosophers. Even Rousseau, the self proclaimed "enemy of monarchs", was seriously studied (though detested) and debated by Catherine and her circle as the Czarina attempted to reform the educational system. It is this theme of reform and renewal, along with Europeanization, that provides the great impetus of interest and patronage towards the philosophes and their ideas. Professor Gorbatov also shows the effect of Catherine's interest on the higher aristocracy, writers, and emergent professional classes that was to reach a intellectual and political crisis upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and her grandson's battles with the Decembrists.

Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240865

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Catherine & Diderot by Robert Zaretsky Pdf

In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.

Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0674237358

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Catherine & Diderot by Robert Zaretsky Pdf

When Empires Collide is a history of the famous encounter between the French philosopher Denis Diderot and his patron, Empress Catherine II of Russia, in 1773. The book begins many years earlier and traces the life of Diderot and Catherine in alternating chapters, painting a vivid and complex portrait of eighteenth-century Europe where new Enlightenment thinking co-existed with old monarchical systems. Robert Zaretsky has written an intellectual and political history of the time by spotlighting the exchange of ideas between a philosopher who reflected on the nature of power and a ruler who excercised it. In the autumn of 1773, taking up residence in Saint Petersburg at Catherine's invitation, the two met every third day for Catherine's instruction in various philosophical and political subjects. Zaretsky describes the scene: "For each 'lesson,' he prepared a series of notes on a particular theme, from which he would read at the start of the session. Having thus introduced the theme, Diderot then engaged Catherine in conversation. This made for a stunning tableau: the conversations were freewheeling, free of the protocol that reigned elsewhere in the palace. Catherine frequently knitted or embroidered during these sessions, while Diderot, caught up in the excitement of an idea, would whirl his hands to emphasize points, often reaching out and grabbing Catherine's leg or arm. Zaretsky pieces together their conversations from letters to each other and to other correspondents, as well as from Diderot's (still untranslated) memoirs. The influence seems to run in both directions; however, as the author concludes, this extraordinary friendship reveals two individuals aware of the power of ideas, but who have very different understandings of the use of ideas.--

Author : Nannerl O. Keohane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400886319

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Philosophy and the State in France by Nannerl O. Keohane Pdf

Tracing the development of French political thought in the seventeenth century, Nannerl Keohane explores a quite different emphasis on the indivisibility of sovereignty and the expression of interests rather than rights. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Voltaire,Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012157130

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Voltaire and Catherine the Great; Selected Correspondence by Voltaire,Catherine II (Empress of Russia) Pdf

Author : Daniel Roche
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674317475

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France in the Enlightenment by Daniel Roche Pdf

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the Enlightenment is a brilliant addition to this historical interest. France in the Enlightenment brings the Old Regime to life by showing how its institutions operated and how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Daniel Roche begins with a map of space and time, depicting France as a mosaic of overlapping geographical units, with people and goods traversing it to the rhythms of everyday life. He fills this frame with the patterns of rural life, urban culture, and government institutions. Here as never before we see the eighteenth-century French "culture of appearances": the organization of social life, the diffusion of ideas, the accoutrements of ordinary people in the folkways of ordinary living--their food and clothing, living quarters, reading material. Roche shows us the eighteenth-century France of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, the King, from Paris to the provinces, from the public space to the private home. By placing politics and material culture at the heart of historical change, Roche captures the complexity and depth of the Enlightenment. From the finest detail to the widest view, from the isolated event to the sweeping trend, his masterly book offers an unparalleled picture of a society in motion, flush with the transformation that will be its own demise.

Author : W. F. Reddaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107694859

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Documents of Catherine the Great by W. F. Reddaway Pdf

This 1931 volume includes key documents relating to Catherine II of Russia. An introduction and notes are provided, together with a chronological table covering events between 1762 and 1777. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Catherine's reign, Russian history, and eighteenth-century history in general.

Author : J. H. Brumfitt
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036805898

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The French Enlightenment by J. H. Brumfitt Pdf

There are three significant questions which may be asked about the Enlightenment, as about any similar phenomenon: what? whence? and whither? This is a short general survey of this important movement in the history of ideas, which would combine some account of the historical and social background with a closer look at the thought of the more outstanding individuals.

Author : Michael Streeter
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905791062

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Catherine the Great by Michael Streeter Pdf

A fascinating life of a ruler who was deservedly styled 'the Great'

Author : Alexander Kamenskii
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538130285

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Catherine the Great by Alexander Kamenskii Pdf

Catherine the Great: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers all aspects of her life and work. Empress Catherine the Great was one of the most famous and amazing women in world history. Includes a detailed chronology of Catherine’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Catherine’s life. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning her life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.

Author : John Hibben
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545326347

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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by John Hibben Pdf

THE age of the Enlightenment has a peculiar interest and value for the student of the history of philosophy. The philosophical output of this period is unusually rich and significant, embracing as it does the classical writings of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Rousseau and Kant, and therefore may well be studied for the material which these separate contributions severally contain. But, more than this, the eighteenth-century philosophy is a period in which a great movement of thought is exhibited, and that, too, on a large and conspicuous stage. England, France, Germany form its settings. It begins with Locke and is completed in Kant. And whatever significance Kant may possess for the philosophical world to-day attaches also to this period, for this period served to open the way for the critical philosophy of the great master which is its appropriate culmination. Moreover, the practical influences of the philosophical discussions of this age are of such extent and importance as to engage the attention of the ordinary reader of history, as well as that of the more special worker in the field of philosophy. In England religious controversy, political theory, and moral standards were profoundly affected by the philosophical tendencies of the day; in France the social and political doctrines became involved with the philosophical, and they were not without a dominating influence upon the popular mind, not only throughout the period preceding the French Revolution, but also during the years of its progress as well; in Germany the same tendencies manifested themselves in theological controversy on the one hand, and in the quickening of poetical insight and interpretation on the other, so that poets became philosophers, and philosophers became poets. The movement of philosophical thought in this age, moreover, is typical of great movements of thought generally, and in this aspect is both illuminating and suggestive as a representative historical study. The tendencies which here prevail, the characteristic differences in point of view, as well as the complementary relation of opposed opinions, are all repeated again and again in the various political, social, religious, moral, and philosophical controversies which emerge through every significant period in the history of thought.

Author : Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Russia
ISBN : HARVARD:HWR7YJ

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Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw by Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡) Pdf

Author : Emmanuelle de Champs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107098671

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Enlightenment and Utility by Emmanuelle de Champs Pdf

A major new study of Jeremy Bentham's engagement with contemporary French culture, from the Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era.

Author : Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319118031

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A History of Western Public Law by Bruno Aguilera-Barchet Pdf

The book outlines the historical development of Public Law and the state from ancient times to the modern day, offering an account of relevant events in parallel with a general historical background, establishing and explaining the relationships between political, religious, and economic events.

Author : Vanessa Rampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483735

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Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia by Vanessa Rampton Pdf

Liberalism is a crucially important topic today; this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to its history.