This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that ...conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and misery, Robert Schneider explores how Toulouse's civic and community life was represented in the stagings of various ceremonies. His inquiry is based on the unpublished diaries of Pierre Barthès, a Latin tutor who was both a devout Catholic and a monarchist, and who recorded forty years of public activity in ways that reflected the mounting social tensions of his times. By analyzing Barthès's accounts, Schneider demonstrates how the variety of ceremonial forms embodied different ritual dynamics and represented contrasting values.
The author focuses most intently on the differences between the solemn religious procession, which was highly participatory and represented local concerns, and the more celebratory festival, which vaunted the monarchy and turned the people into passive spectators. He examines the theatrical nature of often hastily orchestrated religious parades winding through neighborhood streets, then considers the monarchy's use of plazas for staged entertainment, particularly for awe-inspiring displays of fireworks. Schneider argues that the festival proved a successful tool in imposing the symbols of the centralized state on Toulouse's public life, but that both the procession and the festival incorporated powerful ceremonial forms that proved politically useful for the Revolution.
Z chwilą wkroczenia w granice Rzeczypospolitej wojsk szwedzkich podczas trzeciej wojny północnej wśród szlachty nastąpiła polaryzacja postaw wobec najeźdźcy oraz wobec króla Augusta II Wettina. ...Monarsze, który nie bardzo rozumiał i nie chciał rozumieć swych polskich i litewskich poddanych, zarzucano wywołanie powszechnie niechcianej wojny, zawarcie sojuszu z Rosją bez zgody sejmu oraz notoryczne łamanie praw i wolności szlacheckich. Część szlachty wielkopolskiej i mazowieckiej w zawiązanej konfederacji warszawskiej ostatecznie ogłosiła wypowiedzenie posłuszeństwa Augustowi, a król szwedzki Karol XII w parodii elekcji w 1704 r. wymusił powołanie na tron Stanisława Leszczyńskiego, zupełnie uległego dyktatowi swego protektora. Wobec nieznośnej i brutalnej okupacji szwedzkiej zdecydowana większość szlachty małopolskiej, w tym lubelskiej, opowiedziała się przeciwko najeźdźcom, a po stronie dotychczasowego władcy, w odpowiedzi na wydarzenia warszawskie zawiązując generalną konfederację sandomierską. Szlachta województwa lubelskiego wiernie trwała przy Auguście, podając w wątpliwość legalność jego detronizacji, a więc także bezprawnego obioru następcy, i to w tak niegodziwych okolicznościach. Tym niemniej niektórzy z magnackich luminarzy, jak Tarłowie czy Lubomirscy, stopniowo poczęli przechodzić do obozu przeciwnika. Wprawdzie na terenie województwa nie doszło do ważnych starć zbrojnych nadal toczącej się wojny, jednak ze względu na swe położenie geograficzne zostało ono dotknięte rujnującymi skutkami przemarszów, stacjonowania i akcji represyjnych zarówno wojsk obcych, czyli szwedzkich, saskich i rosyjskich, jak też i własnych polsko-litewskich, reprezentujących oba zwalczające się stronnictwa. Sytuacji tej nie zmieniła nawet wymuszona przez Szwedów abdykacja Augusta II w 1706 r., bowiem większość szlachty lubelskiej nadal nie chciała uznać panowania Leszczyńskiego aż do niespodziewanej klęski Szwedów pod Połtawą w 1709 r. i ucieczki „antykróla” z kraju.
In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political ...scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period.
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Richard Ashcraft offers a new interpretation of the political
thought of John Locke by viewing his ideas, especially those in the
Two Treatises of Government , in the context of his
political ...activity. Linking the implications of Locke's political
theory with his practical politics, Professor Ashcraft focuses on
Locke's involvement with the radical Whigs, who challenged the
established order in England from the 1670s to the 1690s. An
equally important aim of the author is to provide a case study of a
revolutionary movement that includes a discussion of its
organization, ideology, socio-economic composition, and political
activities. Based upon a detailed examination of manuscripts,
diaries, correspondence, and newspapers, Professor Ashcraft
presents a wealth of new historical evidence on the political life
of Restoration England. This study represents an example of an
approach to political theory that stresses the importance of
authorial intentions and of the political, social, and economic
influences that structure a particular political debate.
Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy jest analiza rozprawki An Essay Concerning the Use of Reason in Propositions, The Evidence whereof depends upon Human Testimony (Londyn 1707, II wyd. 1709) brytyjskiego ...filozofa Anthony’ego Collinsa (1676-1729). Analiza ta prowadzi do odkrycia trudności bronionego w niej stanowiska, polegających na niejasności użytej terminologii, niejednoznaczności tezy głównej, zgodnie z którą warunkiem koniecznym uznania twierdzenia jest jego zgodność z rozumem, oraz niewystarczalności jej podanego w Eseju uzasadnienia. Zarysowano również kontekst filozoficzny i historyczny tego rzadko analizowanego dzieła.
During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between
effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed-so much
so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable
values in ...students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois
Virtue , Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between
rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of
capitalism.
Longaker's study lingers on four British intellectuals from the
late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century: philosopher John
Locke, political economist Adam Smith, rhetorical theorist Hugh
Blair, and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Across one hundred and
fifty years, these influential men sought to mold British students
into good bourgeois citizens by teaching them the discursive habits
of clarity, sincerity, moderation, and economy, all with one
incontrovertible truth in mind: the free market requires virtuous
participants in order to thrive.
Through these four case studies-written as biographically
focused yet socially attentive intellectual histories-Longaker
portrays the British rhetorical tradition as beholden to the dual
masters of ethics and economics, and he sheds new light on the
deliberate intellectual engineering implicit in Enlightenment
pedagogy.
Previous studies have shown that increasing moisture convergence by transient eddies will cause winter precipitation increase in the future over the coastal lands in Eastern North America (ENA) and ...East Asia (EA). Using moisture budget and composite analyses, we investigate the physical processes responsible for the change of eddy moisture convergence and compare them between the two regions. We find that in addition to the “wet get wetter and dry get drier” (“WWDD”) thermodynamic effect, changes in eddy moisture advection cause enhanced eddy moisture convergence north of 30°N and divergence to the south, with magnitudes comparable to the “WWDD” effect in these regions. The north‐south dipole pattern is reflected in the precipitation change of drying over the southern coastal lands in the future climate. It is caused by enhanced downgradient eddy moisture transport in the north and upgradient eddy moisture transport in the south, which is explained by the locations of the maximum magnitude of eddy relative humidity in conjunction with increase of mean saturation specific humidity. The eddy dynamic intensities associated with extreme precipitation events are found to increase in the future, contributing to the increase of eddy moisture convergence, but it plays a secondary role. The strong similarities of the underlying processes of eddy moisture change between ENA and EA suggest robust response of the spatially varying role of eddies in impacting future change of regional precipitation in ENA and EA.
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There is enhanced eddy moisture convergence in the north and divergence in the south in both Eastern North America and East Asia
Local thermodynamics associated with climatological wind convergence and increased moisture induces eddy convergence in the north
Spatial thermodynamics generates eddy convergence in the north and divergence in the south due to maximum moisture fluctuation in the south
InAuthority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke's political and philosophical thought. Locke's well-known hostility to rhetoric has ...obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke's work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers' relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of theTwo Treatises of Government, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique.
Authority Figuresdraws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke's political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke's thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.
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