Louis XIV in Historical Thought: From Voltaire to the Annales School

1977 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Symcox ◽  
William F. Church
Moreana ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (Number 139- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  

Le roman intitulé Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse, connut, dès sa parution ( 1699), un succès qui n’a pas eu d’éclipse. Il a fourni au moins deux termes au vocabulaire international: mentor et Salente. L’impact de l’oeuvre est inséparable de la personnalité de l’auteur: Fénelon avait publié un Traité de l’éducation des filles, qui contribua à le faire nommer précepteur du petit-fils de Louis XIV, poste qui l’achemina vers celui d’archevêque de Cambrai. Son vaste diocèse, où More avait signé la Paix des Dames en 1529, jouxtait les Flandres, et pâtissait des guerres menées sur cette frontière jusqu’à la paix d’Utrecht (1713). L’Ulysse dont il se fait le Mentor par Télémaque interposé est l’héritier présomptif du Roi-Soleil: il le promène de nation en nation pour lui faire honnir celles qui sont belliqueuses, et apprécier celles où la loi est souveraine, où l’agriculture est à l’honneur, et d’où sont bannis le luxe et l’ostentation. La palme rev ient à la république de Salente, véritable famille comme l’Utopie de More, et en outre dotée d’un climat idyllique. Louis XIV se fâcha: “Il décrie mon règne!” Bossuet s’offusqua: “écrire un roman est indigne d’un prêtre.” Mais l’oeuvre s’est imposée comme un classique.


Author(s):  
Michael Ruse

Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin, who profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, purpose seems to be making a comeback today, as both religious advocates of intelligent design and some prominent secular philosophers argue that any explanation of life without the idea of purpose is missing something essential. This book explores the history of purpose in philosophical, religious, scientific, and historical thought, from ancient Greece to the present. The book traces how Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian ideas of purpose continue to shape Western thought. Along the way, it also takes up tough questions about the purpose of life—and whether it's possible to have meaning without purpose.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Blaise ◽  
Małgorzata Sokołowicz ◽  
Sylvie Triaire

This volume, the result of a conference held in Warsaw in December 2019 as a part of a Franco-Polish research project on crises in literature, focuses on the relationships that the literature maintains with other fields of knowledge. These relationships, made up of sharing, collaboration or tension, were primarily theorized in the 19th century when the founding "disciplines" of our universities and research practices were established, but they had existed before. The texts presented in this volume allow us to verify this, from the Renaissance period to contemporary literature. They deal with historical circumstances and aesthetic changes in the course of which literature has forged links with religious or historical thought and discourse, accompanied the emergence of sociology or ethnography, and prepared new disciplines, such as demography. And it has always reinvested this new knowledge with a humanist and poetic dimension. Does the literature crisis lay in its capacity for reinvestment of what seems to escape from it and aiming at autonomy?


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