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...Dawn Fulton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Dawn Fulton CAJOU'S REASON: MICHELE LACROSIL AND POST-WAR INTELLECTUAL LIBERALISM Les choses que ['on tait sont-elles moins pernicieuses? Michele Lacrosil, Cajou Cajou, the eponymous heroine of Michele Lacrosil's second...

... medical philosophy. Guinizzelli’s correspondence between love and nobility is nurtured by Avicenna’s increasingly popular doctrine of forma specifica , which structures the reasoning and the examples of the vernacular poem. Guinizzelli therefore frames the idea of nobility in the heart of the lover...

..., Christine becomes duped into believing that women are monstrous, and, in opposition to this way of thinking, Lady Reason appears and begins to describe to Christine how misogynistic convictions themselves are in fact quite abnormal. To inoculate Christine against misogyny, Reason intimates that chauvinism...

.... Popkin argues that the Apologie, in a wandering, unsystematic fashion, presented skepticism in a novel way. While recognizing the originality of Montaigne's method and influence of his work, Popkin's reading does not acknowledge Montaigne's radical and novel understanding of the place of human reason. I...

... the winter of 2016 lurking between the paperback pages of Rimbaud s Poésies; a note from September scribbled on a postcard of Hawaii (for some reason) and cards from a 2012 trip to Sydney (from the Museum of Oddities, from Malligan s, or Sydney s Only Irish Restaurant, the food of which, Ross amusedly...

... to ideas of community and communication—not only to the ethical but, mainly, to the political. Chapter 3 (“Reason and Its Discontents”) tackles prose theoretical works (like King Duarte’s Leal Conselheiro ), prose disputations (by Pere Torroella and Pedro Jiménez de Urrea), and lyric works in Catalan...

... went on to call laughter a damnable principle of delusion, mockery, and pride. Making us feel superior to our fellows and our God-given existence, it revels in the confusions of perception and reason. One can hardly think of a position more alien to Twain's light vision of the Primordial Joke...

... of a fault in Gawain that makes him less than the hero (frequently an excess courtesy bordering on too much flirtation), I do not agree that in Lance/at we are meant to see Gawain's choice of the water crossing necessarily as a flaw-simply more reasonable than the choice Lancelot makes. 5. Bruckner...

..., and the mediation-read: alienation-of experience). In Kevin McLaughlin's densely argued essay, "On Poetic Reason of State: Benjamin, Baudelaire, and the Multitudes," ethical irony-filtered through the Benjaminian concept of Erlebnissen or "[l]iberation from the protective custody of a life of self...

... the rest of the text in order to point out their different textual nature. 1 For multiple reasons, the Vita Nova , composed between ca. 1292 and 1294, when Dante was almost thirty years old, offers an ideal opportunity to reflect on the questions posed above. First, we do not possess any autographs...

... elles dependoient de sa volonte en leur naissance, en leur progrez, en leur duree. (71) This kind of control also signified that Jesus was the Son of God. Furthermore, for Senault, the gift of grace, performs a crucial role in aiding man's reason to guide his passions. Christ preserved for man the grace...

... was a harbinger of reason caught in a period of baroque stagnation was first introduced by Irving Leonard in his 1929 biography of Sigiienza y Gongora, a work that is still the standard reference for the scholar's life (1). Kathleen Ross discusses the issue, arguing for considering him under the rubric of baroque...

...” (40). For each mode—from perceptual and affective differences among human beings to ethical differences between cultures—we are given textual evidence that the narrator entertains this flavor of skepticism, along with some reasons, both philosophical and textual, to resist it. The overwhelming...

...." This view has been supported by critics (Pedro Ribas, Gonzalo Sobejano, Iris Zavala) and generational members (Juan Martinez Ruiz, Ramiro de Maeztu) alike. As Miguel de Unamuno can reasonably be said to have formed part of this literary generation, one might expect to find huellas of the Nietzschean...

... with mates elsewhere. Few w­ ere ­those who ventured into the office at this hour (around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m and in the beginning I wondered what Ross s reasons for this nocturnal preference w­ ere. Was it that he simply wanted to avoid as many colleagues as pos­si­ble? I myself employed a similar strategy...

... ensurvorschrift1810 .p­ df. 108 Tamara Kamatovi Emperor Franz I, who would initiate and oversee the creation of a new web of censorship bureaucracies to restore order and security and boost morale. One of the main reasons for which the 1810 regulations ­were so controversial was that it was unclear w­ hether...

... seulement en un dieu qui exerce sa providence sur la vie et sur les biens des hommes, pour donner une heureuse suite d'annees a ceux qui l'adorent: c'est la portion des Juifs. (L449-S690)5 The first approach assigns God to the place of scientific and rational ends, strictly as the author of reasoned...

... that the domestic society of Clarens imitates the organization of political society. As has often been noted, Julie's portrait of her husband Wolmar closely resembles Rousseau's description of the legislator in the Contrat social. Wolmar is a man of reason, order and dispassion who enjoys the "vie unie, reglee, et...

... Johnson, were “part of a strategy to maintain racial slavery,” even one “of total annihilation” (45). For Haitians, for anyone who knows this history, the name Rochambeau evokes a period of genocidal violence to this day. Le nom français lugubre encore nos contrées . . . 2 For years we reasoned...

.... Nabokov is of course hardly alone in making this sort of pronouncement; ever since there have been journalists to interview them, writers have regularly been asked about which authors of the past they admire and which of their contemporaries they tolerate. The reason Nabokov lends himself so well...