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Tag Archives: Diderot
WILL THE LAST BARBARIAN POETICALLY TURN OUT THE LIGHT
The barbarian invasions destroyed classical civilization in the period 350-700 A.D. The period included the fall of Rome in A.D. 476 and through the 500 or so years that followed , the Dark Ages became the early Middle Ages. … Continue reading
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HUCKSTERS & HYPERBOLE
To Europeans intellectuals of the eighteenth century, America was a battleground of ideas; the war between Nature and civilization.And its proponents did not mince words. Respected academics like Comte de Buffon reported that domesticated animals imported from Europe as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Albert Gallatin, Aztecs, Christopher Columbus, Comte de Buffon, Crevecoeur, Diderot, E. Adamson Hoebel, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Incas, John Trudell, John White Art, Lord Fitzgerald, Paul Kane, Rationalism and Romanticism, Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, william R. Leigh
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MONKEY SEE & MONKEY DO
During its heyday, the Grand Tour; whereby aristocrats sent their sons to France and Italy to study in the eighteenth century; influenced social life to a remarkable degree. It also created the basic structure of foreign travel which later generations … Continue reading
ELUSIVE FORTY-FIRST SEAT
A language police and literary garbage removal squad.Painful protocol for a poet to swallow.The Academie Francaise was created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 as the official agency of linguistic formalism. It began as a reaction against female domination of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Balzac, Beaumarchais, Camus, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles Baudelaire, David, Diderot, Flaubert, Gregory Corso, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, James Redfield, Jean Cocteau, L'Academie Francaise, Leon Vincent, Leon Vincent The French Academy, Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Valentin Contrart, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs
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THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT
Avoid inhaling demons.Read the warning label first. The package looked interesting. It read ”Daydream with the Devil. attention. contents highly flammable. handle with caution. verify peremption date. recycle with Lucifer. Save nature.” He saw in his fame only a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, David Hume, Diderot, Haiti, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jesse Duplantis, Kant, Leibniz, Pat Robertson, Robert Bolton, Voltaire, Voodoo, Voudou, Voudou Day of the Dead
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GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract” was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diderot, French Literature, Henry David Thoreau, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marxist, Matthias Grunewald, Oscar Wilde, Rousseau, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Voltaire
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CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION
”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter … Continue reading
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