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A BOLD NEW VISION FOR A NEW WORLD
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that we are living contrary to our true nature.
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Examining the birth and development of early modern atheism from
Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670) to d'Holbach's
Systeme de la nature (1770), this study considers Spinoza, Hobbes,
Cudworth, Bayle, Meslier, Boulainviller, Du Marsais, Freret,
Toland, Collins, Hume, Diderot, Voltaire, and d'Holbach and
positions them in a general interpretive scheme, based on the idea
that early modern atheism is itself an unwanted fruit of early
modern metaphysics and theology. Breaking with a long-standing
tradition, Descartes claimed that it was possible to have a "clear
and distinct" idea of God, indeed that the idea of God was the
"clearest and most distinct" of all ideas accessible to the human
mind. Humans could thus obtain a scientific knowledge of God's
nature and attributes. But as soon as God became an object of
science, He also became the object of a thoroughgoing scientific
analysis and criticism. The effortlessness with which early modern
atheists managed to turn round their adversaries' arguments to
their own favour is a sign that the new doctrines of God which
emerged in the seventeenth-century, each based in its own way on
principles and dogmas related to the new science of nature, were
plunging headfirst towards the precipice under their own steam.
Edward Said is a major 20th-century thinker. His impact on the way
we think about identity and postcolonialism has been profound and
transformative. In this book of essays, scholars of postcolonial
studies, philosophy and literary criticism, informed by Said's
wide-ranging scholarship, engage with and extend his work. Robert
Young, author of "White Mythologies", focuses his essay on the
notion of hybridity and ethnicity in England. Benita Parry explores
how a very English story of imperialism is narrated in Conrad's
"Nostromo". Other contributors include Bryan Cheyette, Moira
Ferguson and Bruce Robbins. The collection also looks at the work
of Frantz Fanon and cultural difference in Africa. And following
Said's work and activism around the Palestinian question there are
also essays exploring the relationship betwen Jewish and Arabic
identity. Keith Ansell-Pearson is the author of "Nietzsche, Deleuze
and the Philosophy Machine". Benita Parry is the author of
"Delusions and Discoveries: Studies on India in the British
Imagination" and "Conrad and Imperialism". Judith Squires is the
joint editor of "Cultural Remix: Theories of Politics and the
Popular" and "Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location".
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In Enlightenment Europe, a new form of pantomime ballet emerged,
through the dual channels of theorization in print and
experimentation onstage. Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet's
construction through print culture, Theories of Ballet in the Age
of the Encyclopedie follows two parallel paths-standalone treatises
on ballet and dance and encyclopedias-to examine the shifting
definition of ballet over the second half of the eighteenth
century. Bringing together the Encyclopedie and its Supplement, the
Encyclopedie methodique, and the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon with the
works of Jean-Georges Noverre, Louis de Cahusac, and Charles
Compan, it traces how the recycling and recombining of discourses
about dance, theatre, and movement arts directly affected the
process of defining ballet. At the same time, it emphasizes the
role of textual borrowing and compilation in disseminating
knowledge during the Enlightenment, examining the differences
between placing borrowed texts into encyclopedias of various types
as well as into journal format, arguing that context has the
potential to play a role equally important to content in shaping a
reader's understanding, and that the Encyclopedie methodique
presented ballet in a way that diverged radically from both the
Encyclopedie and Noverre's Lettres sur la danse.
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