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El genio en el Siglo XVIII

Autor: Esteban Ponce , Luciana Martínez

Número de Páginas: 257

El genio, figura clave para la estética durante el siglo XVIII, permitió pensar la relación del sujeto con la naturaleza, la posibilidad de atribuir al hombre condiciones innatas, el modo en que la genialidad tenía lugar en el ámbito de las ciencias, la postulación de un nuevo modelo ideal de humanidad, entre tantos otros temas. En este libro un grupo internacional de investigadores de la filosofía moderna analiza el desarrollo del concepto genio, revisa los principales aspectos de la representación de esta figura por parte de un filósofo en particular o de una corriente de pensamiento. Asimismo, examina el significado del concepto genio para autores de las tradiciones inglesa, francesa, italiana, alemana e hispanoamericana. Además de analizar el significado y la importancia que tuvo para algunos filósofos ilustrados considerados clásicos, en esta obra se exploran algunas interpretaciones menos visitadas, tales como la emergencia del concepto en la obra de Vico, las referencias en textos de las colonias americanas y algunas apreciaciones sobre el genio por parte de intelectuales mujeres. Junto al despliegue de las doctrinas canonizadas, el lector encontrará...

The Gentleman's Magazine

Número de Páginas: 722

Britain and Tibet 1765-1947

Autor: Julie G. Marshall

Número de Páginas: 658

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period 1765 to 1947. As such it also involves British relations with Russia and China, and with the Himalayan states of Ladakh, Lahul and Spiti, Kumaon and Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam, in so far as British policy towards these states was affected by her desire to establish relations with Tibet. It also covers a subject of some importance in contemporary diplomacy. It was the legacy of unresolved problems concerning Tibet and its borders, bequeathed to India by Britain in 1947, which led to border disputes and ultimately to war between India and China in 1962. These borders are still in dispute today. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and article in their historical context. Most entries are also annotated. This work is therefore both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry...

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...

Número de Páginas: 730

Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer

Autor: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. Van Edward Cave.)

Número de Páginas: 716

The Century of Taste

Autor: George Dickie

Número de Páginas: 169

This is a critical account of such central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of art as Hutcheson, Gerard, Alison, Kant and Hume. It traces the development of the modern theory of artistic taste from its origin to its refinement and

Large Infrastructure Projects in Germany

Autor: Genia Kostka , Jobst Fiedler

Número de Páginas: 218

This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious €315 billion investment plan devised by the European Commission, wherein Europe's infrastructure is a key investment target. Germany is adopted as a focus, as Europe's largest economy, and a nation that has seen significant delays and tensions in the delivery of key infrastructure projects. The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappropriate risk management and unforeseen technological challenges influence delivery. The in-depth case studies on the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and offshore wind parks show how project delivery can face massive problems, and illuminating solutions are offered to these problems. Overall, the case of Germany also offers the opportunity to assess various new forms of project delivery, such as public-private partnerships (PPP), and the risks and opportunities of...

The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer

Autor: Edward Cave

Número de Páginas: 724

The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

Autor: Joseph Thomas

Número de Páginas: 616

Once considered the largest and most extensive source of biographies in the English language, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains information on nearly every historical figure, notable name, and important subject of mythology from throughout the world prior to the 20th century. Spanning all fields of human effort-from literature and the arts to philosophy and science-and touching on topics from multiple areas of mythological study, including Norse, Greek, and Roman, this extraordinary reference guide continues to be one of the most thorough and accurate collections of biographical data ever created. Combining mythological and biographical entries into a single, comprehensive list, and incorporating a unique system of indicating pronunciation and orthography, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology offers readers an unparalleled record of historically significant identities, from the obscure and forgotten newsmakers of yesteryear to the highly celebrated shapers of history that remain influential today. Volume II (CLU-HYS) of this exquisite four-volume set includes information on such names as Clytemnestra, Constantine the Great, Charles...

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

Autor: James A. Harris

Número de Páginas: 1541

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France, in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later. This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in the context provided by a host of writers less well known today. The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the important aspects of its subject matter....

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

Autor: H. B. Nisbet , Claude Rawson

Número de Páginas: 978

This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.

Essai sur le goût

Autor: Alexander Gerard

Número de Páginas: 200

Alexander Gerard (1728-1795) participe avec Thomas Reid, James Beattie et James Oswald aux débats de l’école philosophique écossaise du sens commun. Son Essai sur le goût, qui connut trois éditions successives (1759, 1764, 1780) reçut à l’époque un accueil très favorable. Dans la tradition des Lumières, Gerard s’efforce de faire la part égale entre l’inné et l’acquis, et l’appréhension du Beau est autant affaire de dispositions naturelles que de culture. Même le Sublime, une fois passé l’effet d’éblouissement, devient objet de réflexion. L’effort que tente Gerard de concilier sensations et jugement le conduit en matière d’esthétique aux mêmes apories que ses collègues du sens commun dans le domaine de la philosophie et sa théorie fut éclipsée par Edmund Burke et Adam Smith et surtout par Emmanuel Kant en Allemagne. Il n’en demeure pas moins que l’Essai sur le goût constitue une étape majeure dans la recherche esthétique au xviiie siècle et son intérêt est expliqué dans l’introduction critique de cet ouvrage où sont mis en regard l’apport de l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, notamment Longin et Cicéron, ainsi que des...

Nomination of Alexander G. Garza

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs

Número de Páginas: 96

The Emergence of Modern Architecture

Autor: Liane Lefaivre , Alexander Tzonis

Número de Páginas: 550

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter

Número de Páginas: 496

Kant's Concept of Genius

Autor: Paul W. Bruno

Número de Páginas: 246

While many studies have chronicled the Romantic legacy of artistic genius, this book uncovers the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's third Critique, alongside the development of his understanding of nature. Paul Bruno addresses a genuine gap in the existing scholarship by exploring the origins of Kant's thought on aesthetic judgment and particularly the artist. The development of the word 'genius' and its intimate association with the artist played itself out in a rich cultural context, a context that is inescapably significant in Western thought. Bruno shows how in many ways we are still interrogating the ways in which a nature governed by physical laws can be reconciled with a spirit of human creativity and freedom. This book leads us to a better understanding of the centrality of understanding the modern artistic enterprise, characterized as it is by creativity, for modern conceptions of the self.

Scottish Philosophy of Rhetoric

Autor: Rosaleen Keefe

Número de Páginas: 212

The popular and successful rhetorical textbooks produced by the 18th century Scottish philosophical tradition, such as George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776), Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783), and Alexander Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric (1877) have been widely accorded a role in the trajectories of 19th and 20th century literary theory. Scholars have generally overlooked them, however, as philosophical works. The selected writings chosen for this volume show how these rhetorical textbooks were a practical extension of the philosophy of language developed by 18th century Scottish philosophers. Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Alexander Gerard, and Henry Home, Lord Kames, advanced a radically new paradigm of language as an inherently mediated practice, directed simultaneously to personal and social, moral and aesthetic uses. This Scottish philosophy of rhetoric powerfully influenced the teaching of language and literacy as tools for social and educational innovation. This volume - the first of its kind - offers a wide variety of writings on rhetoric and rhetorical theory, selected in a way that reveals their ...

Distribution des prix faite aux élèves du collège d'Audenarde

Número de Páginas: 188

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland

Autor: Bernard Burke

Número de Páginas: 932

Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg

Autor: Rudolf Leonhard Tafel

Número de Páginas: 714

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reception Of British Aesthetics In Germany

Autor: Heiner F. Klemme

Número de Páginas: 2175

The transfer of intellectual ideas between European countries during the period known as the Enlightenment was largely dependent upon the abilities of translators and philosophers, who had to convey and make comprehensible, complex and new ideas expressed in one language to those who thought and wrote in another. Often, they had to invent or conceive a completely new terminology to express what the British authors intended to say. That many of the terms they introduced are now part of common German is a sign of their abilities. It was through endeavours of men like Spalding, Mylius and Resewitz that Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hogarth, Hume, Burke and Gerard's aesthetic ideas found followers and critics away from home. With the new introductions these texts, which are often even rarer than the original English editions, will further our understanding of the dissemination of aesthetics and philosophy within the German tradition of the European Enlightenment. Sulzer, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kant, Herder, Goethe und Schiller, for instance, cannot be understood without the pioneering work of these translators. Furthermore, since they had a significant influence on the aesthetic vocabulary...

Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg :

Autor: R. L. Tafel

Número de Páginas: 716

Art and Enlightenment

Autor: Jonathan Friday

Número de Páginas: 249

During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how qualitative differences operate upon the mind through the faculty of taste, and how aesthetic sensibility can be improved through education. This volume brings together and provides contextual introductions to the most significant 18th century writing on the philosophy of art. From the pioneering study of beauty by Francis Hutcheson, through Hume's seminal essays on the standard of taste and tragedy, to the end of the tradition in Dugald Stewart, we are swept up in the debate about art and its value that fascinated the philosophers of enlightenment Scotland - and continues to do so to this day.

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

Autor: Ray Desmond

Número de Páginas: 876

Over the past four centuries botanists and gardeners in the British Isles have gathered, maintained and propagated many varying species of plants. Their work has been documented in innumerable books and articles which are often difficult to trace. The Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists represents a time-saving reference source for those who wish to discover more about the lives and achievements of the horticulturalists listed. The dictionary's utility comes not only from indicating the major publications of the named authors, but also the location of their herbaria and manuscripts.; The previous 1977 edition of the Dictionary has for many years been a much used source of information for botanists, botanic artists and archivists. In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13,000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists over 1400 entries and, for the first time, garden designers.; Finally the Dictionary should have international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth.; Each entry gives, wherever possible,...

Architectural Theory

Autor: Mr. Rohit Manglik

Número de Páginas: 577

EduGorilla Publication is a trusted name in the education sector, committed to empowering learners with high-quality study materials and resources. Specializing in competitive exams and academic support, EduGorilla provides comprehensive and well-structured content tailored to meet the needs of students across various streams and levels.

The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

Autor: Peter Lake , Michael Questier

Número de Páginas: 301

Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her case was comparable to those of other separatist females who were in trouble with the law at the same time, in particular Anne Foster, also of York. In doing so, they shed new light on the fascinating stories of these unruly women whose fates have been excluded from Catholic and women narratives of the period. The result is a work which considers the questions of religious sainthood and martyrdom through a gender lens, providing important insights into the relationship between society, the state and the church in Britain during the 16th century. This is a major contribution to our understanding of both English Catholicism and the Protestant regime of the Elizabethan period.

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen

Autor: Thomas Thomson

Número de Páginas: 598

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

The Handbook of Electoral System Choice

Autor: J. Colomer

Número de Páginas: 571

The topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demand for advice on the choice of electoral rules; at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks new formulae favouring both more representative institutions and more accountable rulers. The Handbook of Electoral System Choice addresses the theoretical and comparative issues of electoral reform in relation to democratization, political strategies in established democracies and the relative performance of different electoral systems. Case studies on virtually every major democracy or democratizing country in the world are included.