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  • The Atheist's Bible

    Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'

    by Caroline Warman ...
    ‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the ... Read more

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  • The Dark Thread

    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    by John D. Lyons, Hervé-Thomas Campangne, David LaGuardia, Timothy Chesters, Kathleen Long, Marina S. Brownlee, Maria Tausiet, Michael Meere, Caroline Warman, Guy Spielmann0, Philippe Roger1, Alison Booth2, Jennifer Tsien3, Jocelyn Moore4 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Tolerance

    The Beacon of the Enlightenment

    by Caroline Warman (Editor), Caroline Warman et al.
 (Translator) ...
    Series Book 3 - Open Book Classics
    Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and ... Read more

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  • Sade's Sensibilities

    by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, Eliane Robert Moraes, Christopher C. Nagle, John Phillips, Caroline Warman, Courtney Wennerstrom ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Sade’s Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

    A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    by Denis Diderot, Marian Hobson (Editor), Kate E. Tunstall (Translator), Caroline Warman (Translator), Pascal Duc (Music editor) ...
    Series Book 4 - Open Book Classics
    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is ... Read more

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  • The Nobleman and Other Romances

    by Isabelle de Charriere, Caroline Warman ...
    Translated by Caroline Warman ...
    The only available English translation of writings by an Enlightenment-era Dutch aristocrat, writer, composer-and woman.Born Dutch, noble, and free-spirited, Isabelle de Charrière (also known as Belle de Zuylen) was an enlightened woman whose writings-not unlike Jane Austen's-tackled the intricacies of high society, particularly in matters of love. Published when she was only twenty- two, "The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Voltaire Almighty

    by Roger Pearson ...
    Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban.During much of his life Voltaire was the toast ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man (Mobi Classics)

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated in 1782, expressing his atheism by having the dying libertine convince the priest of the mistakes of a pious life. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Corpus

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Richard A. Rand ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork.Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    by Georges Minois ...
    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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