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5 days ago · It emerged first in the 18th century when Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote and composed his “scène lyrique” Pygmalion, a formally innovative and experimental adaptation of the story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the context of the speculative and neoAristotelian ideas that Rousseau contributed to public debate about the significance of ...
2 days ago · Let them eat cake. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (left) who coined the phrase " qu'ils mangent de la brioche " in 1765. In the years following the French Revolution, the quotation became attributed to Marie Antoinette (right), although there is no evidence that she said it. " Let them eat cake " is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu ...
2 days ago · Rousseau believed that the advent of the concept of property introducing inequality and jealousy. This, to Rousseau, was the foundation of society. He wrote, “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
3 days ago · A la clé, l’acquisition d’une pièce exceptionnelle : un herbier confectionné par Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), que l’on croyait disparu depuis près d’un demi-siècle. Pour les CJBG, dont les collections sont réputées dans le monde entier, il s’agit d’un événement. Car, malgré les nombreux et prestigieux herbiers déjà ...
2 days ago · The French painter with whom the term Rococo is most often associated is Jean-Antoine Watteau, whose pastoral scenes, or fêtes galantes, dominate the early part of the 18th century. There are multiple similarities between Rococo and Baroque.
2 days ago · Rousseau, the 18th-century France thinker, philosopher, educator, and writer, is known for his profound insights into democracy and individual freedom. His book The Social Contract...
3 days ago · We are thrilled to announce the 2024 ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ Annual Lecture and Conference, co-organised between the ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought with the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre. The call for commentators and chairpersons is open. The deadline for expressing one’s interest is July 31st ...
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