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"On the spirit of rights": Dan Edelstein
No full textDan Edelstein, On the spirit of rights, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2018.Dan Edelstein, On the spirit of rights, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2018
The Super-Enlightenment: daring to know too much
No full textHistorians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed ‘illuminist’, and better-known forms of Enlightenment thinking and culture. But where are the boundaries of ‘enlightened’ human understanding? This is the question posed by contributors to this volume, who put forward a completely new way of configuring these seemingly antithetical currents of thought, and identify a grey area that binds the two, a ‘Super-Enlightenment’. Through articles exploring the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific dimensions of the Super-Enlightenment, contributors demonstrate the co-existence of apparent opposites: the enlightened and the esoteric, empiricism and imagination, history and myth, the secretive and the public, mysticism and science. The Enlightenment can no longer be seen as a sturdy, homogeneous movement defined by certain core beliefs, but one which oscillates between opposing poles in its social practices, historiography and even its epistemology: between daring to know, and daring to know too much. Dan Edelstein, Introduction to the Super-Enlightenment I. What limits of understanding? Peter Reill, The hermetic imagination in the high and late Enlightenment David Bates, Super-epistemology Jessica Riskin, Mr Machine and the imperial me II. The arts of knowing Liana Vardi, Physiocratic visions Anthony Vidler, For the love of architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the Hypnerotomachia Fabienne Moore, The poetry of the Super-Enlightenment: the theories and practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville III. Sacred societies Natalie Bayer, What do you seek from us? Wisdom? Virtue? Enlightenment? Inventing a Masonic science of man in Russia Kris Pangburn, Bonnet’s theory of palingenesis: an ‘Enlightened’ account of personal resurrection? Dan Edelstein, The Egyptian French Revolution: antiquarianism, Freemasonry and the mythology of nature Tili Boon Cuillé, From myth to religion in Ossian’s France Summaries Bibliography Inde
De l’esprit des droits de l’homme
No full textQuel est l’esprit des droits de l’homme ? C’est à cette question fondamentale que Dan Edelstein, professeur à l’université de Stanford, tente de répondre dans son dernier livre (Edelstein, 2019). Son étude tend principalement à réhabiliter l’importance des Lumières dans l’émergence et la reconnaissance des droits de l’homme et à reconstruire la généalogie des régimes américains et français de protection des droits. Son premier ouvrage, publié dix ans plus tôt, étudiait déjà comment les théori..
The terror of natural right ::republicanism, the cult of nature, and the French Revolution /
No full text"Natural right - the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin - is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror." "In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race" - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls "natural republicanism," which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis's trial until the fall of Robespierre." "A work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period."--BOOK JACKET
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The terror of natural right ::republicanism, the cult of nature, and the French Revolution /
No full text"Natural right - the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin - is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror." "In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race" - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls "natural republicanism," which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis's trial until the fall of Robespierre." "A work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period."--BOOK JACKET
Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment. A Genealogy
No full textQu’est-ce que les Lumières ? L’essai de Dan Edelstein s’inscrit non sans provocation dans un débat récurrent en philosophie et en histoire des idées, sur la définition, l’origine intellectuelle et la diffusion des Lumières. Son argumentation entend réviser un certain nombre de points théoriques et historiques soulevés par l’historiographie et en ce sens est une introduction relativement claire aux grandes orientations du débat. Le livre aborde nombre d’interprétations qui vont de Peter Gay à ..
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On the spirit of rights /
No full textBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others, who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of "rights" we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today
Spin injection and inverse Edelstein effect in the surface states of topological Kondo insulator SmB6
No full textThere has been considerable interest in exploiting the spin degrees of freedom of electrons for potential information storage and computing technologies. Topological insulators (TIs), a class of quantum materials, have special gapless edge/surface states, where the spin polarization of the Dirac fermions is locked to the momentum direction. This spin-momentum locking property gives rise to very interesting spin-dependent physical phenomena such as the Edelstein and inverse Edelstein effects. However, the spin injection in pure surface states of TI is very challenging because of the coexistence of the highly conducting bulk states. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the spin injection and observe the inverse Edelstein effect in the surface states of a topological Kondo insulator, SmB6. At low temperatures when only surface carriers are present, a clear spin signal is observed. Furthermore, the magnetic field angle dependence of the spin signal is consistent with spin-momentum locking property of surface states of SmB6.National Basic Research Programs of China (973 program) [2014CB920902, 2015CB921104, 2013CB921903]; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11574006, 11374020]; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB04040100]; DOE BES Award [DEFG02-07ER46351]; 1000 Talents Program for Young Scientists of ChinaSCI(E)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Alaskan Author and Historian Dan O'Neill
No full textDan O'Neill has become a living legend in Alaska. He is the author of The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement; A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River; The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge, and recently Stubborn Gal: The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer, a children's book published by the University of Alaska Press. Dan came to Alaska in 1975 and has done a variety of things including dog mushing, trapping, hunting, working in construction, and on the pipeline. As research associate at the UAF Oral History program, he produced radio and television documentaries for public broadcasting, and for several years he wrote a column of political opinion for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Scripting revolution : a historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Did the English have a script for revolution in the seventeenth century? / Tim Harris -- God's revolutions : England, Europe, and the concept of revolution in the mid-seventeenth century / David R. Como -- Every great revolution is a civil war / David Armitage -- Revolutionizing revolution / Keith Michael Baker -- Constitutionalism : the happiest revolutionary script / Jack Rakove -- From constitutional to permanent revolution : 1649 and 1793 / Dan Edelstein -- Scripting the French Revolution, inventing the Terror : Marat's assassination and its interpretations / Guillaume Mazeau -- The antislavery script : Haiti's place in the narrative of Atlantic revolution / Malick W. Ghachem -- Scripting the German Revolution : Marx and 1848 / Gareth Stedman Jones -- Reading and replaying the revolutionary script : revolutionary mimicry in nineteenth-century France / Dominica Chang -- 'Une révolution vraiment scientifique' : Russian terrorism, the escape from the European orbit, and the invention of a new revolutionary paradigm / Claudia Verhoeven -- Scripting the Russian Revolution / Ian D. Thatcher -- You say you want a revolution : revolutionary and reformist scripts in China, 1898-2012 / Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Wu Yidi -- Spiritual atom bomb : the Little Red Book explodes the Cold War order / Alexander C. Cook -- The reel, real and hyper-real revolution : scripts and counter-scripts in Cuban documentary film / Lillian Guerra -- Writing on the wall : 1968 as event and representation / Julian Bourg -- Scripting a revolution : fate or Fortuna in the 1979 revolution in Iran / Abbas Milani -- The multiple scripts of the Arab revolutions / Silvana Toska
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