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1936 (Hardcover)
Sean Alexander League
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The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the
attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the
fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the
Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.
De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and
the evangelization of the rural poor. After his death, his ethos
was universally lauded as one of the most important elements in the
regeneration of the French church, but what happened to this ethos
after he died? This book provides a thorough examination of the
major activities of de Paul's immediate followers. It begins by
analysing the unique model of religious life designed by de Paul -
a model created in contradistinction to more worldly clerical
institutes, above all the Society of Jesus. Before he died, de Paul
made very clear that fidelity to this model demanded that his
disciples avoid the corridors of power. However, this book follows
the subsequent departures from this command to demonstrate that the
Congregation became one of the most powerful orders in France. The
book includes a study of the termination of the little-known
Madagascar mission, which was closed in 1671. This mission, replete
with colonial scandal and mismanagement, revealed the terrible
pressures on de Paul's followers in the decade after his demise.
The end of the mission occasioned the first major reassessment of
the Congregation's goals as a missionary institute, and involved
abandoning some of the goals the founder had nourished. The rest of
the book reveals how the Lazarists recovered from the setbacks of
Madagascar, famously becoming parish priests of Louis XIV at
Versailles in 1672. From then on, fealty to Louis XIV gradually
trumped fidelity to de Paul. The book also investigates the darker
side of the Congregation's novel alliance with the monarch, by
examining its treatment of Huguenot prisoners at Marseille later in
the century, and its involvement with the slave trade in the Indian
Ocean. This study is a wide-ranging investigation of the Lazarists'
activities in the French Empire, ultimately concluding that they
eclipsed the Society of Jesus. Finally, it contributes new
information to the literature on Louis XIV's prickly relationship
with religious agents that will surprise historians working in this
area.
The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the
attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the
fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the
Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.
De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and
the evangelization of the rural poor. After his death, his ethos
was universally lauded as one of the most important elements in the
regeneration of the French church, but what happened to this ethos
after he died? This book provides a thorough examination of the
major activities of de Paul's immediate followers. It begins by
analysing the unique model of religious life designed by de Paul -
a model created in contradistinction to more worldly clerical
institutes, above all the Society of Jesus. Before he died, de Paul
made very clear that fidelity to this model demanded that his
disciples avoid the corridors of power. However, this book follows
the subsequent departures from this command to demonstrate that the
Congregation became one of the most powerful orders in France. The
book includes a study of the termination of the little-known
Madagascar mission, which was closed in 1671. This mission, replete
with colonial scandal and mismanagement, revealed the terrible
pressures on de Paul's followers in the decade after his demise.
The end of the mission occasioned the first major reassessment of
the Congregation's goals as a missionary institute, and involved
abandoning some of the goals the founder had nourished. The rest of
the book reveals how the Lazarists recovered from the setbacks of
Madagascar, famously becoming parish priests of Louis XIV at
Versailles in 1672. From then on, fealty to Louis XIV gradually
trumped fidelity to de Paul. The book also investigates the darker
side of the Congregation's novel alliance with the monarch, by
examining its treatment of Huguenot prisoners at Marseille later in
the century, and its involvement with the slave trade in the Indian
Ocean. This study is a wide-ranging investigation of the Lazarists'
activities in the French Empire, ultimately concluding that they
eclipsed the Society of Jesus. Finally, it contributes new
information to the literature on Louis XIV's prickly relationship
with religious agents that will surprise historians working in this
area.
Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of
listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily
habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion
that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE,
Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which
they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of
sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture
perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This
approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how
music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their
role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on
discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean
Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and
gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism
and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually
reinforcing symbiosis.
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of
listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily
habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion
that there are “auditory cultures.” In the fourth century BCE,
Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which
they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of
sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture
perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This
approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how
music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their
role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on
discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean
Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and
gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism
and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually
reinforcing symbiosis.
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1936 (Paperback)
Sean Alexander League
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R571
R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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A collection of eccentric poems that will make you laugh, arouse
your senses and break your heart. Poems about space, love, death,
relationships, and even the challenge of cleaning one's room.
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Hippolytus (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Sean Alexander Gurd
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R562
R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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Euripides wrote two plays called "Hippolytus." In this, the second,
he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation
comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as
it might have appeared in unprocessed form to a reader sometime
shortly after Euripides' death. The second processes the drama into
the reduced but much more distinct form of modern print
translations.
In Chaos In Boxes, author Sean Luciw crams the square peg of music
theory into the round holes of Egyptian folklore, astronomy,
numerology, babooshkas, poetry, diarrhea, and the long-lost
Solfeggio matrix. Parallels abound in our universe. Chaos In Boxes
is a collection of experiments, theories and observations regarding
music theory-based ideas and their connections to other parts of
the world. Astronomy, astrology, geometry, arithmetic, science, art
and poetry mix with scales, modes, chords, fretboard diagrams and
more, in a down-to-earth, fun style.
How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by
stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new
perspective on the limits and the accomplishments of the modern
traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd
takes as his starting point the case of a single Greek tragedy by
Euripides, one of his last. According to ancient accounts, the
Iphigenia at Aulis was produced at the city Dionysia, the great
festival of Athenian tragedy, sometime after Euripides died
(between 407 and 405 BCE). Whether the text performed then was
entirely the work of Euripides, and whether the version that
appears in the manuscripts reflects either that performance or its
defunct author's design, are unknown. But since the
mid-eighteenth-century the mysteries and conflicting evidence
concerning Iphigenia at Aulis have given rise to an array of
different attempts to reconstruct the original, and every
generation has seen a version of the play that is radically
different from those that came before. Gurd pioneers a literary
philology comfortable with this textual multiplicity, capable of
reading Iphigenias at Aulis in the plural.Regarding the dossier of
successive editions of Iphigenia at Aulis as a symbol for the
condition of modern textual reason, Gurd shows lovers of classical
literature exactly how contingent the texts they read really are."
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