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...e case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different...

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... well, but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love in order to pursue occult study. The story develops in the days of the French Revolution in 1789. Zanoni has lived since the Chaldean civilization. His master Mejnor warns him against a love affair but Zanoni does not heed. He finally marries Viola and they have a child. As Zanoni experiences an...

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...The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticized by Blake several places in the Marr...

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...e Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Children!, ... ...h Editions. The typeface is named after Claude Garamond (c. 1480-1561), a French type designer and publisher and the world’s first commercial typefo...

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... itself, the result of God's desire for complete self-awareness. Hegel was fascinated by the works of Spinoza, Kant, Rousseau, and Goethe, and by the French Revolution. Modern philosophy, culture, and society seemed to Hegel fraught with contradictions and tensions, such as those between the subject and object of knowledge, mind and nature, self and Other, freedom and auth...

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...2. Neutrosophy, a New Branch of Philosophy A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] mea... ...here confirm the rule! A minor poet, for example, who wrote in English or French or German is better known than a genius like Eminescu who wrote in ... ...am not able to do. I cannot for I can. Paradoxal sleep, from a French "Larousse" dictionary (1989), is a phase of the sleep when the drea... ...pt to change the political power ends up in embarking another power, "the revolution is impossible" (Bernard-Henry Lévy, André Glucksmann, Jean- Mari... ..., Jean- Marie Benoist, Philippe Némo who represented the "New Philosophy" French group). The power of the monarch derives from his powerless pe... ... Marcel wrote "Les hommes contre l'humain", speaking on brain-washing (in French: le lavage du cerveau), and on tabula rasa. Mass-media partially do... ...ty", Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, 1962. [23] Marcuse, Herbert, "Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory", Beacon Press, Boston, 19... ...tudy in Economics, Finance and Other Social Sciences: The Road to a Third Revolution in Economic, Financial, Social, Ethical, Logical and Political T...

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...asserting that the only legitimate governments are those which have the consent of the people. Locke's ideas heavily influenced both the American and French Revolutions. His notions of people's rights and the role of civil government provided strong support for the intellectual movements of both revolutions. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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...Zadig, ou La Destinée, (Zadig, or The Book of Fate) (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised refere...