Casanova in the Enlightenment
Title | Casanova in the Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Malina Stefanovska |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2020-12-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1487506643 |
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
Enlightenment
Title | Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Art Beck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Casanova and Enlightenment
Title | Casanova and Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | David John Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-10-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781399055833 |
Casanova, or, the Art of Happiness
Title | Casanova, or, the Art of Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Flem |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9780713992489 |
A study of Casanova which describes him as a hero of the Enlightenment period, a faithful, honourable friend, and a lover of women.
Casanova
Title | Casanova PDF eBook |
Author | Ivo Cerman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Enlightenment |
ISBN | 9780729411844 |
The stereotype of Casanova as a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover has been so pervasive that generations of historians have failed to take serious account of his philosophical legacy. This has recently changed, however, as the publication of the definitive edition of his memoirs and the majority of his longer treatises has heralded a surge of interest in the writer. This book constitutes an interpretive turn in Casanova studies in which the author is positioned as a highly perceptive and engaged observer of the Enlightenment. Drawing primarily on Casanova's large body of manuscripts and lesser-known works, the contributors reveal a philosopher whose writings covered topics ranging from sensual pleasure to suicide. Analysing Casanova's oeuvre from the perspective of moral philosophy, contributors show how several of his works - including his historical writings and satirical essays on human folly - contribute to the Enlightenment quest for a secular morality. A major feature of this book is the first English annotated translation of Federico Di Trocchio's seminal article 'The philosophy of an adventurer', which paved the way for a re-evaluation of Casanova as a serious philosopher. In subsequent chapters contributors uncover the Italian context of Casanova's anticlericalism, analyse the sources of his views on suicide and explore the philosophical dialogues contained in his recently published manuscripts. Casanova: Enlightenment philosopher marks a turning point in literary and philosophical studies of the eighteenth century, and is an indispensable resource for analysing and interpreting the work of this previously overlooked Enlightenment thinker.
Casanova
Title | Casanova PDF eBook |
Author | Ivo Cerman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History of philosophy, philosophical traditions |
ISBN | 9781800343733 |
The stereotype of Casanova as a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover has been so pervasive that generations of historians have failed to take serious account of his philosophical legacy. This has recently changed, however, as the publication of the definitive edition of his memoirs and the majority of his longer treatises has heralded a surge of interest in the writer. This book constitutes an interpretive turn in Casanova studies in which the author is positioned as a highly perceptive and engaged observer of the Enlightenment. Drawing primarily on Casanova's large body of manuscripts and lesser-known works, the contributors reveal a philosopher whose writings covered topics ranging from sensual pleasure to suicide. Analysing Casanova's œuvre from the perspective of moral philosophy, contributors show how several of his works - including his historical writings and satirical essays on human folly - contribute to the Enlightenment quest for a secular morality. A major feature of this book is the first English annotated translation of Federico Di Trocchio's seminal article 'The philosophy of an adventurer', which paved the way for a re-evaluation of Casanova as a serious philosopher. In subsequent chapters contributors uncover the Italian context of Casanova's anticlericalism, analyse the sources of his views on suicide and explore the philosophical dialogues contained in his recently published manuscripts. Casanova: Enlightenment philosopher marks a turning point in literary and philosophical studies of the eighteenth century, and is an indispensable resource for analysing and interpreting the work of this previously overlooked Enlightenment thinker.
Public Religions in the Modern World
Title | Public Religions in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | José Casanova |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2011-08-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022619020X |
In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. No longer content merely to administer pastoral care to individual souls, religious institutions are challenging dominant political and social forces, raising questions about the claims of entities such as nations and markets to be "value neutral", and straining the traditional connections of private and public morality. Casanova looks at five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland, Brazil, and the United States). These cases challenge postwar—and indeed post-Enlightenment—assumptions about the role of modernity and secularization in religious movements throughout the world. This book expands our understanding of the increasingly significant role religion plays in the ongoing construction of the modern world.