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The postcolonial enlightenment : eighteenth-century colonialisms and postcolonial theory
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ISBN: 1281998699 9786611998691 0191551864 9780191551864 9780199229147 0199229147 9781281998699 6611998691 019967759X 9780199677597 9780191607813 0191607819 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominio


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Histoire de la pharmacie en France et en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 1459336852 1441625410 2763786227 9781441625410 9782763706221 2763706223 9782763786223 9781459336858 Year: 2009 Publisher: Québec Les Presses de l'Université Laval

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Discourses of tolerance and intolerance in the European Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780802091789 0802091784 1442687886 9781442687882 1442691360 Year: 2009 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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With reference to gender preference, racial and social profiling, immigration policies, and the adjudication of borderland cultures and hybrid identities, this collection offers an in-depth examination of Enlightenment society and its parallels in the contemporary world."--Pub. desc. Featuring an internationally renowned group of contributors, this volume looks at the concept of tolerance at the point where the individual, or group, converges or clashes with the state. Though it appears to provide grist for the mill of Enlightenment critics such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre by confronting specific cases in which individual freedoms are forced to acquiesce to state control and authority in the guise of tolerance, the essays also offer a cautionary tale of critical restraint in the post-9/11 world. By reflecting on similar discrepancies in the interplay of discourses of tolerance and intolerance that inform our own lives, we recognize attempts to craft and apply theories and practices of toleration. "The idea of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, there is a surprising lack of scholarly works that attempt to analyse the influence of tolerance on the individual during this period. This collection assesses, for the first time, the positive and negative impact of discourses and theories of tolerance upon the lives of individuals in eighteenth-century Europe.


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John Keats and the ideas of the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780748637805 9780748637812 0748637818 074863780X 0748652183 1282620347 9786612620348 Year: 2009 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This innovative study provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his often overlooked engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought.


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Epicurus in the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780729409872 0729409872 Year: 2009 Volume: 2009/12 Publisher: Oxford Voltaire Foundation


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Filmer le 18e siècle
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ISBN: 9782843211188 2843211182 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : Desjonquères,

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L'histoire du XVIIIe siècle et les mythologies des Lumières ont inspiré des cinéastes de tous pays et époques. Pour se réapproprier l'héritage de ce siècle, le cinéma renoue avec sa sensualité, sa théâtralité et sa liberté de ton. L'évocation de films d'E. Rohmer, M. Forman ou S. Coppola éclaire le dialogue créatif qui s'instaure entre le siècle des lumières et l'époque contemporaine.


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Religion, politics and law : philosophical reflections on the sources of normative order in society
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ISBN: 9789004172074 9004172076 9786612400612 1282400614 9047425383 9789047425380 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Modern, liberal democracies in the West living under the rule of law and protection of human rights cannot articulate the very values from which they derive their legitimacy. These pre-political and pre-legal preconditions cannot be guaranteed, let alone be enforced by the state, but constitute nevertheless its moral and spiritual infrastructure. Until recently, a common background and horizon consisted in Christianity, but due to secularisation and globalisation, society has become increasingly multicultural and multireligious. The question can and should be raised how religion relates to these sources of normative order in society, how religion, politics and law relate to each other, and how social cohesion can be attained in society, given the growing varieties of religious experiences. In this book, a philosophical account of this question is carried out, on the one hand historically from Plato to the Enlightenment, on the other hand systematically and practically.


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Hawke, Nelson, and British naval leadership, 1747-1805
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ISBN: 1282987917 9786612987915 1846157315 1843834995 Year: 2009 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Unlike other books on eighteenth-century British admirals, which tell and re-tell the history of admirals' successful exploits, this book investigates what exactly were the qualities which made for successful naval leadership in this period. It identifies twelve key qualities, and discusses how far each of the many leading admirals of the period possessed these qualities. It argues that Hawke and Nelson were the outstanding naval leaders of the eighteenth century, outlining their respective careers and showing how both of them possessed, more than the other admirals, the key qualities of leadership. Moreover, it argues that British fleet tactics and blockade strategy reached a new high level in the middle of the eighteenth century; that Hawke played the leading operational role in achieving this; and that Hawke has been undervalued both in the history of the British navy and in public estimation of Britain's great military and naval leaders. Overall, the book provides a refreshing reappraisal of British naval warfare in the eighteenth century, enabling readers to relive key battles and other encounters, and appreciate how crucial, alongside other key factors which are also discussed, the leadership qualities of the admirals were in bringing about success, or, in some cases, failure. Ruddock Mackay has published extensively on maritime history and taught at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth and the University of St Andrews. Michael Duffy, who was Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter 1991-2007, has also published extensively on maritime history.

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