Search results for "Age of Enlightenment"
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Nouvelle Méthode di Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Ridisegno, analisi grafica e rilettura critica
2021
Nel mese di luglio del 1825, l’architetto-disegnatore Jean-Jacques Lequeu (Rouen 1757-Parigi 1826) confeziona gran parte dei lavori di una vita trascorsa al tavolo da disegno per donarli alla Biblioteca del Re (oggi Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia) appena un anno prima di spegnersi nel suo appartamento di Parigi al numero 33 di rue Saint-Sauveur. Da quel momento il gruppo di disegni appartenuti all’architetto normanno costituirà una delle collezioni più eterogenee e ricche di contenuti di tutto il département des estampes et de la photographie, dove oggi sono custoditi. Di questa insolita raccolta fanno parte alcuni volumi manoscritti corredati da tavole magistralmente acquerellate – come q…
Why France and India? The Convergence Hypothesis
2016
The cross-fertilization of insights derived from French and Indian intellectual history has ignited a pluridisciplinary reflection on the role played by these two countries in the fabric of the knowledge-based economy in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the Age of Enlightenment in Western Europe in the eighteenth century, brought forward an autonomous position for knowledge in human societies, and, on the other hand, it was once predicted that India’s future would be built in her classrooms (Education Commission). Finally, we lay the ground for the characterization of a triple knowledge-based convergence between the two higher-education systems on academic, economic and institutio…
An overview of the concepts of change and development - from the premodern to modern era
2012
This chapter focuses on the concepts of change and progress: on one hand, it approaches this topic from the point of view of the history of science; on the other hand, from the point of view of modern developmental psychology. The section on the history of science focuses on the historical period of the pre-modern Hellenistic era to the Enlightenment. This period is long, and it therefore includes several, different world views and cultural trends. In this chapter culturally significant trends of thought within the PtolemaicAristotelic tradition are described.The section on the modern developmental psychology approach analyses the following questions: (1) which characteristics must changes …
Présentation
2012
Montage and Spectator: Eisenstein and the Avant-Garde
1990
We could say that the avant-garde at the beginning of the century received the advent of cinema enthusiastically; that is not strange. Though the differences between groups, movements, works, or acts that are included under this arrogant name are sometimes too vast, there was a similar project — or group of projects — whose aim was to proclaim the crisis of a homogeneous world, born in the humanism of the Renaissance and validated in the Age of Enlightenment . Cinema thus became a suitable space for attacking and criticizing the artistic and cultural tradition. We can enumerate briefly some reasons for this attitude. First, cinema was one of the less 'artistic' forms of art, so to speak. Ci…
The Pleasures of Imagination. Aspects of Fictionality in the Poetics of the Age of Enlightenment and in Present-Day Theories of Fiction
2020
AbstractInvestigations into the history of the modern practice of fiction encounter a wide range of obstacles. One of the major impediments lies in the fact that former centuries have used different concepts and terms to designate or describe phenomena or ideas that we, during the last 50 years, have been dealing with under the label of fiction/ality. Therefore, it is not easy to establish whether scholars and poets of other centuries actually do talk about what we today call fiction or fictionality and, if they do, what they say about it. Moreover, even when we detect discourses or propositions that seem to deal with aspects of fictionality we have to be careful and ask whether these propo…