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  • Prophet of Science

    The Vision and Passion of Auguste Comte

    de Mary Pickering ...
    Born during the ferment of the French Revolution, Auguste Comte was one of the foremost thinkers of the nineteenth century, his ideas influencing social reformers, philosophers, politicians and scientists. Advocating for what he called ‘the science of society’, he contended that facts and reason alone should matter in public discourse. But while Comte strove to create social harmony, he suffered ... Leer más

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  • Piano and Song

    How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    de Friedrich Wieck ...
    Traducido por Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck masterfully intertwines the intricacies of pianistic technique with the emotive power of song composition. This seminal work offers a profound exploration of the relationship between piano performance and vocal melody, emphasizing the importance of a symbiotic interaction in music-making. Wieck's literary style is both didactic and reflective, enriched by his ... Leer más

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  • Piano and Song

    Enriched edition. How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    de Friedrich Wieck, Kelsey Bates ...
    Traducido por Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck offers an insightful exploration of the intimate relationship between piano performance and vocal expression, advocating for a harmonious integration of musical elements. This pedagogical text, reflecting the Romantic era's emphasis on emotive expression, serves as both a practical guide for pianists and a philosophical treatise on the nature of music-making. ... Leer más

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  • Love, Order, and Progress

    The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte

    Edición de Michel Bourdeau, Mary Pickering, Warren Schmaus ...
    Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's philosophy, the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Auguste Comte: Volume 3

    An Intellectual Biography

    de Mary Pickering ...
    Series series Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
    This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1857. During these early years of the Second Empire, Comte became increasingly conservative and anxious to control his disciples. This study offers the first study of the tensions within his movement. ... Leer más

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  • The Romantic Machine

    Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

    de John Tresch ...
    In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic ... Leer más

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  • Auguste Comte

    de Mike Gane ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure.Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive ... Leer más

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  • What is Literature for?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

    de Antoine Compagnon ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Leer más

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  • The Self and Its Pleasures

    Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject

    de Carolyn J. Dean ...
    Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief ... Leer más

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  • The End of the Soul

    Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

    de Jennifer Hecht ...
    On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of ... Leer más

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  • Sewing, Fighting and Writing

    Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture

    de Maria Tamboukou ...
    Series series Radical Cultural Studies
    Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century. As a consequence, French women workers were radicalized much earlier, creating a unique and ... Leer más

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  • Rebel Daughters

    Women and the French Revolution

    Edición de Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine ...
    Series series University of California Humanities Research Institute Series
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, "woman" was transformed into an allegorical ... Leer más

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