Tag Archives: Jean Jacques Rousseau

political porn

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dave

…But the intellectual and philosophical criticism of the French monarchy during the French Revolution never compared in number with the pornographic novels and squibs. One of the most popular clandestine novels was Les Amours de Charlot et Toinette. It is … Continue reading →

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perfide manon: peace with the “petit collet”

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Dave

Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, and he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Prevost ventured back to France, and there was joined by … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lenki Eckhardt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manon Lescaut, Samuel Richardson, Voltaire | Leave a comment

tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Dave

…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading →

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who can like the highlands?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Dave

Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop | Leave a comment

day: nature and nurture at dawn

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

Eighteenth-century England and the circle of brilliant men around Josiah Wedgwood. Some were more eccentric than others. Even peculiar… Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity. His friends loved … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Thomas Bicknell, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton | Leave a comment

day: doomed in duplicate

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood’s friends numbered some brilliant but odd types. Most are forgotten today. Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity… Thomas Day was even stranger than Erasmus Darwin, whom … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Esther Milnes, George Stubbs, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Bicknell, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton | Leave a comment

steam rises : divide and conquer the elements

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

Human rights and human fights. There are such chasms of difference between the secular, humanistic, far left and the religious, Biblical based interpretation that mixes prophecy, land and god, that there seems to be an impossibility of exit from an … Continue reading →

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a motionless world of time between

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Dave

Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading →

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a bolt of the volt

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Dave

Among the men of the Enlightenment Francois Marie Arouet, self-styled Voltaire, stands first. The acid skepticism, the faith in nature and science, the hatred of theologians and dogmamongers, all this had already been formulated when Voltaire was still a fashionable … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Rosenberg, Francois Marie Arouet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, la faute a voltaire movie, Madame Pickwick, vincent desiderio, Voltaire, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

utopia: machines triumphant

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dave

Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading →