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The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

The Religion of Rabelais

By: Lucien Febvre

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The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

The Religion of Rabelais

By: Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre's magisterial study of sixteenth century religious and intellectual history, published in 1942, is at long last available in English, in a translation that does it full justice. The book is a modern classic. Febvre, founder with Marc Bloch of the journal Annales, was one of France's leading historians, a scholar whose field of expertise was the sixteenth century. This book, written late in his career, is regarded as his masterpiece. Despite the subtitle, it is not primarily a study of Rabelais; it is a study of the mental life, the mentalit , of a whole age. Febvre worked on the book for ten years. His purpose at first was polemical: he set out to demolish the notion that Rabelais was a covert atheist, a freethinker ahead of his time. To expose the anachronism of that view, he proceeded to a close examination of the ideas, information, beliefs, and values of Rabelais and his contemporaries. He combed archives and local records, compendia of popular lore, the work of writers from Luther and Erasmus to Ronsard, the verses of obscure neo-Latin poets. Everything was grist for his mill: books about comets, medical texts, philological treatises, even music and architecture. The result is a work of extraordinary richness of texture, enlivened by a wealth of concrete details--a compelling intellectual portrait of the period by a historian of rare insight, great intelligence, and vast learning. Febvre wrote with Gallic flair. His style is informal, often witty, at times combative, and colorful almost to a fault. His idiosyncrasies of syntax and vocabulary have defeated many who have tried to read, let alone translate, the French text. Beatrice Gottlieb has succeeded in rendering his prose accurately and readably, conveying a sense of Febvre's strong, often argumentative personality as well as his brilliantly intuitive feeling for Renaissance France.

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Harvard University Press

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0674708261

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9780674708266

The Coming of the Book

The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

By: Lucien Febvre,Henri-Jean Martin

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The Coming of the Book

The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

By: Lucien Febvre,Henri-Jean Martin

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

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388

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Verso

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1859841082

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9781859841082

Life in Renaissance France

By: Lucien Febvre

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Life in Renaissance France

By: Lucien Febvre

In writing about sixteenth-century France, Lucien Febvre looked for those changes in human consciousness that explain the process of civilization--the most specific and tangible examples of men's experience, the most vivid details of their daily lives. These essays, written at the height of Febvre's powers and sensitively edited and translated by Marian Rothstein, are the most lucid, evocative, and accessible examples of his art.

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188

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Harvard University Press

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0674531809

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9780674531802

Tocqueville

The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty

By: Lucien Jaume

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Tocqueville

The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty

By: Lucien Jaume

Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book. For Tocqueville, America was a mirror for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly about his own society, to engage French thinkers and debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic legacy."--

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357

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Princeton University Press

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0691152047

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9780691152042

Giving Life, Giving Death

Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy

By: Lucien Scubla

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Giving Life, Giving Death

Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy

By: Lucien Scubla

Although women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations. Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.

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325

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MSU Press

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1628952679

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9781628952674

The Hidden God

A Study of Tragic Vision in the 'Pensées' of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

By: Lucien Goldmann

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The Hidden God

A Study of Tragic Vision in the 'Pensées' of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

By: Lucien Goldmann

This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Lwy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukcs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world visions" to flesh out the similarities between Pascal's Penses and Kant's critical philosophy, contrasting them with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Goldmann, a leading exponent of the most fruitful method of applying Marxist ideas to literary and philosophical problems, the "tragic vision" marked an important phase in the development of European thought, as it moved from rationalism and empiricism to the dialectical philosophy of Hegel, Marx and Lukcs. Here he offers a general approach to the problems of philosophy, of literary criticism, and of the relationship between thought and action in human society.

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650

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Verso Books

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1784784052

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9781784784058

Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino

Vol. 1

By: Lucien Bonaparte

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Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino

Vol. 1

By: Lucien Bonaparte

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368760106

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9783368760106

Combats pour l'histoire

By: Lucien Febvre

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Combats pour l'histoire

By: Lucien Febvre

Je définis volontier l'Histoire comme un besoin de l'humanité, le besoin qu'éprouve chaque groupe humain, à chaque moment de son évolution, de chercher et de mettre en valeur dans le passé les faits, les événements, les tendances qui préparent le temps présent, qui permettent de le comprendre et qui aident à le vivre. Et j'ajoute : recomposer la mentalité des hommes d'autrefois ; se mettre dans leur tête, dans leur peau, dans leur cervelle pour comprendre ce qu'ils furent, ce qu'ils voulurent, ce qu'ils accomplirent. Et, d'autre part, je dis les hommes. Les hommes, seuls objets de l'Histoire, d'une histoire qui s'inscrit dans le groupe des disciplines humaines de tous les ordres et de tous les degrés, à côté de l'anthropologie, de la psychologie, de la linguistique, etc., d'une histoire qui ne s'intéresse pas à je ne sais quel homme abstrait, éternel, immuable en son fond et perpétuellement identique à lui-même, mais aux hommes toujours saisis dans le cadre des sociétés, dont ils sont membres, aux hommes membres de ces sociétés, à une époque bien déterminée de leur développement, aux hommes dotés de fonctions multiples, d'activités diverses, de préoccupations et d'aptitudes variées, qui toutes se mêlent, se heurtent, se contrarient et finissent par conclure entre elles une paix de compromis, un modus vivendi qui s'appelle la Vie. " " Combats pour l'Histoire " est un recueil de trente-trois articles écrits en 1906 et 1952 où Lucien Febvre développe sa vision d'ensemble du champ de l'Histoire, suivi de onze portraits des grands intellectuels des années 30. Un classique.

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226606911X

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9782266069113

Martin Luther

By: Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

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Martin Luther

By: Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

Ouvrage paru en français sous le titre Martin Luther, un destin (Presses Universitaires de France, 1928). La présente édition est entièrement en langue...

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Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris

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2735105636

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9782735105632

Book's by Lucien Febvre

The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

The Coming of the Book

The Coming of the Book

Life in Renaissance France

Life in Renaissance France

Tocqueville

Tocqueville

Giving Life, Giving Death

Giving Life, Giving Death

The Hidden God

The Hidden God

Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino

Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino

Combats pour l'histoire

Combats pour l'histoire

Martin Luther

Martin Luther

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