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Bøger af Thomas M. Kavanagh

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  • - Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
    af Thomas M. Kavanagh
    766,95 kr.

    Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.

  • - Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism
    af Thomas M. Kavanagh
    993,95 kr.

    Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtuea gift to be shared with ones companion, with a reader, or with the public.In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leadingto advances in both ethics and aesthetics.Kavanagh shows that pleasure is not necessarily hedonistic or opposed to Enlightenment ideals in general; rather, he argues that the pleasure of individuals is necessary for the welfare of theircommunity.

  • - A Different History of French Culture
    af Thomas M. Kavanagh
    664,95 kr.

    Kavanagh argues that the history of gambling as a cultural practice provides new and important insights into how French culture has responded to the challenge of understanding what identity, responsibility, and freedom can mean in a world ruled largely by chance.

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