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Dualisms : the Agon of the Modern Era.

Dualisms is a tour-de-force, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy, theology, and literary criticism. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most famous intellectual debates in all of literature, and considers the implications that they continue to have for the study of the humanities...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quinones, Ricardo J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Two Intellectual Nations
  • 2. Names
  • 3. Paradigms of Development
  • Chapter 1: Erasmus and Luther: First and Foremost, a Pattern Established
  • 1. Public Intellectuals and Reform
  • 2. The Gifts of History
  • 3. Two 'Moments': Erasmus
  • 4. Arguments, Stylistic Tropes, and the Carousel of Erasmus's Mind
  • 5. Acclaim and Controversy
  • 6. Luther's Calling
  • 7. The Great Year
  • 8. The Gathering Heat of Argument
  • 9. The Unending Debate
  • Chapter 2: Voltaire and Rousseau: Never a Peace
  • 1. Three Phases
  • 2. Original Affinities
  • 3. The Agonist of the Age
  • 4. Voltaire: From Mundanity to Cultural Greatness
  • 5. Rousseau's Break Through: The First Discours
  • 6. A Dualism Determined
  • 7. Rousseau's Religious Genius: 'Un novateur contre les novateurs'
  • 8. Candide: The Necessary Response
  • 9. Rousseau Out on a Limb
  • 10. Émile: A Reconstructed Rousseau
  • 11. Voltaire on Attack
  • 12. The Wages of Persecution: The Confessions
  • Chapter 3: Passages of History: From Mundanity to Philosophy
  • Chapter 4: Turgenev and Dostoevsky: 'What Is There in Common?'
  • 1. Separate Accounts
  • 2. Displacement, New Intellectual Plateaus, and Recurrence
  • 3. Success and Its Consequences
  • 4. Turgenev Between Hamlet and Quixote
  • 5. Turgenev's Major Novels: Culture and Criticism
  • 6. The Enlarged Scope of Ideas
  • 7. Dissension and Its Causes
  • 8. The Great Emergence
  • 9. Thought Transformed
  • Chapter 5: Sartre and Camus: 'Revolt Changes Camps'
  • 1. Preamble to the Review
  • 2. Cameos in Triage
  • 3. Readjustments
  • 4. Camus in Triplicate
  • 5. Worlds in Common
  • 6. Second Generation Modernists: Emergence and Paradox
  • 7. The Sartrean Moment
  • 8. Sartre, a Major Novelist
  • 9. Camus: A 'Cabeza clara'
  • 10. Sartre of the Antinomies
  • 11. The Great Debate.
  • 12. Final Words: The Fall and Words
  • 13. Hybridity Prevails
  • Epilogue
  • Dualisms and the Humanities
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
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