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darwin:blind chance of divine mutation
…The theory of evolution in biology was already an old, even a discredited, one. Darwin, in his preface to The Origin of Species, listed more than thirty precursors- and was accused, in spite of this, of serious omissions. Greek thinkers … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bishop Wilberforce, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Creation movie, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, J. B. Lamarck, Jean Du Buffon, lon chaney, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Bettany, Sir Richard Owen, T.H. Huxley
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tencin: stockjobbing the abbe and others
It was the Regency period in France, beginning in 1715 and was a hey-day of cynical license in the last legs of the aged Louis XIV. And Mme Alexandrine de Tencin found no lack of companions. Her vows from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Chevalier Destouches, D'Alembert, Denis Diderot, francois boucher paintings, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Jean-Honore Fragonard, John Law, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, Lord Bolingbroke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Prior, Philippe d'Orleans
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arguing from bank to boudoir
Powerful advocates brought Alexandrine’s pleas to the ear of the pope, and in November 1712, her vows were formally annulled. It was the liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, and from bank to boudoir, she was always … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond, Lord Bolingbroke, Louis XIV, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Prior, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Mme de Ferriol, Mme de Tencin, Philippe d'Orleans
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enlightened unreason
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. This is our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought. It has persisted for over two centuries. This is a tradition which is bending against strains that challenge its hegemony. At what … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Jean Maury, Denis Diderot, Francis Picabia, Immanuel Kant, Jean de La Harpe, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Mel Ramos art, Peter Howson art, roberto matta, Santayana, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire
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wake up and smell the coffee
Make sure the coffee is ready, hot and with extra brewing. Its not known if Voltaire preferred cream and sugar or straight up black, however it has been documented that the philosopher and part-time scallywag and ringtail drank copious amounts … Continue reading
voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle
“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading
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Tagged Conrad Black, dale farm essex, dale farm travellers, Denis Diderot, Elizabeth Renzetti, gene sharp, grattan puxon, irish travellers, jean huber, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john b. judis, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, maurice sendak bumble-ardy, Michael Lewis The Big Short, millionaires march, occupy wall street, President Andrew Jackson, Rupert Murdoch, Voltaire
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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?
He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO
A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Elder, Buddy Holly, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Daniel Kreps, Denis Diderot, Django Reinhardt, Donizetti, E.T.A. Hoffman, Echo Lamb, Elfriede Jelinek, Elvis Presley, Etienne Carjot, Foucault, Francesco Piave, Francis Toye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Gunter grass, Hegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Jack Unteweger, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Lennon, John Malkovich, Kate Connolly, Kurt Vonnegut, Lana Clarkson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Haselbock, Martin Scorsese, Melchiorre Delfico, Merelli La Scala, Michael Sturminger, Mick Brown, Norman Mailer, Phil Spector, Renata Tibaldi, Robert Johnson, Rossini, Shakespeare, The Ramones, Tina Turner, Victor Hugo, Vikram Jayanti, Voltaire
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