...Panos Paul Morphos Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 RENAISSANCE TRADITION IN ROUSSEAU’S SECOND DISCOURS By PANOSPAUL MORPHOS It has been suggested by students of Rousseau that, whereas he shows in his writings...

... with the pertinent historical sug- gestions (fou:foZ, sec:siche, etc and then put it all in plain English, the result would be well worthwhile. HENRYDEXTER LEARNED Temple University Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts. By JEAN-JACQUESROUSSEAU. Critical...

... on the two Discours, La NouveZZe Hklo’ise, and mile, would sometimes be quite different. Grimm did not have a very high opinion of the ideas expressed in the Discours sur Zes sciences et Zes arts. He repeatedly attacked Rousseau’s thesis that the arts and sciences have corrupted humanity, argued...

... of Rousseau’s writings, but particularly in the Discours sur Z’intgalitt, the Discours sur l‘tconomie polilique, the Emile, Du contrat social, Lettres &rites de la mon- tagne, Projet de constitution pour la Corse, Considtrations sur le gouvernement de Pologne, Extrait du projet de paix...

... friendly lines regarding Maupertuis in the original 1738 edi- tion of the Fourth Discours en vers sur Z‘Homme and the slightly joc- ular and more critical verses substituted for them in the poem as it was republished in 1752. In 1736 Maupertuis had led a French expedition to Lapland...

... the following year.ll Moreover, Desmaizeauxl* lists five of these six essays (the excep- tion being the Discours sur Zes Historiens Frangois) among the works occasioned by conversations at Madame Mazarin’s salon. There is in- ternal evidence to support this in the case of Sur Zes Opera which...

....~ As a category of his thought, Rousseau’s view of retrospective Time is firmly based on an empirical confrontation with life. Ante- rior to the philosophical discontent of the first and second Discours and of the initial works of musical theory, the child, introduced intuitively to the disparate...

... than sheltered condition and (2) foreign policy is a determinant in the origin, rise, and fall of the nation. These premises and their corollaries are evident in almost all of Rousseau’s writings, but particularly in the Discours sur Z’intgalitt, the Discours sur l‘tconomie polilique...

... such community (248-78). Here the cartographic analogy may be clear, but its real impulse in the writing is far less sure, reduced at best, again, to metaphor. It is even less convincingly applied to Descartes’s Discours de la m’thode, whatever the link there, by architectural imagery, between self...

... with the Discours de la méthode. His entire training had been based on this sort of intellectual and scholarly dialogue — though I should clearly take care here, since this idea has a major role in my Quixotic effort to “rescue” the thinker whom the West made its philosophical sounding board for four...

..., a mercantile society with which the only responsible course of action was an exhausting, costly break. * This paper was read before the French 7 section (“Hommage A Albert Camus”) of the Modern Language Association at Philadelphia on December 27, 1960. 1 Albert Camus, Discours de SuZde (Paris...

... the lines of Virgil. 16“Response aux calomnies contenues au Discours sur les Miseres de ce temps, Fait par Messire Pierre Ronsard, jadis Poete, & maintenant Prebstre.” Par B. de Mont-Dieu [OrlCans] M.D. LXIII, fol. f iii v” (Bibl. Nat., Rk,p Ye 173). See Laum. XI, 111, note 2...

... ou un critique ne saurait contredire sans tomber dans le paradoxe ou la fantaisie pure.” S’il y a une certitude sur laquelle on doive insister, c’est celle-ci: tandis que le Discours mr les sciences et les arts fut d’abord public h Paris, le second Discours, la Lettre Ci BAlembert, La...

... recherche. Toute critique doit inclure dans son discours (fiit-ce de la fason la mieux detournee et la plus pudique qui soit) un discours implicite sur elle-mhe; toute critique est critique de l’ceuvre et critique de soi-msme; pour reprendre un jeu de mots de Claudel, elle est con...

... the ultimate future of Britomart : But yet the end is not. There Merlin stayd, As ouercomen of the spirites powre, Or other ghastly spectacle dismayd, That secretly he saw, yet note discoure : Which suddein fit, and halfe extatick stoure When the two...

... obtained by Mersenne from the French authorities, which not only allowed the Discours to be sold in France but praised Des- cartes’s contributions to science and knowledge in glowing terms and named him against his wishes. His concern that the privilège (which...

... : Discours sur Zes Sci- ences et les '4rts. New York: The Modern Language Association of Amer- ica, Monograph Series XV; London: Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. xiii 4- 278. ITALIAN De Simonc, Joseph Francis. Alessandro Manzoni : Esthetics...

... the latter coni- posed toward the end of his life. Ronsard’s Discours can be compared to Corneille’s verses, remarks Nerval, who quotes F. Schlegel once again on a comparison between Ronsard and Corneille. Finally, Ner- val considers Malherbe, whose influence, he believes, was pernicious...

...Marcel Francon Tome XVII, permière partie: Le Tombeau de Charles IX (1574); Discours au Roi (1575); Les Estoilles (1575); Le Tombeau de Marguerite de France (1575). Édition critique par Paul Laumonier. Revisée et completée par I. Silver et R. Lebègue. Paris: Librairie Marcel Didier...

.... 4-50 ; Discours debtorable du meurtre, fol. Biir. Colynet’s version is expressly rejected by An Historicall Collection, p. 190, as too unfavorable to Guise. At the same place this work relates that just before the murder Guise’s nose bled, and he “felt certaine straunge motions at his heart...