Letter to M. d'Alembert on Spectacles (French: Lettre à M. d'Alembert sur les spectacles) is a 1758 essay written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in opposition...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Articles prone to spam from June 2020)
(Discours sur l'économie politique [fr]) Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles, 1758 (Lettre à D'Alembert sur les spectacles) Julie; or, The New Heloise (Julie...
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The Misanthrope (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed in his Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles that it was Molière's best work, but hated that it made...
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Pygmalion (Rousseau) (category Plays based on Metamorphoses)
that same year. Rousseau probably wrote his text in 1762, but hesitated to put on a production of it, complaining of his lack of skill (in Pygmalion's case...
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The Social Contract (redirect from On the Social Contract)
fled the country to avoid imprisonment.: 99 However, it was primarily Rousseau's chapter on civil religion, rather than his ideas on liberty and sovereignty...
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Rousseau critiqued theatre's role in society in his Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles, contributing to a rich discourse that intertwined politics, philosophy...
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Index of philosophical literature (section M)
– Letter to a Christian Nation – Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles – Letters of Ayn Rand – Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever – Letters to a Young...
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French theatre of the late 18th century (redirect from Perspectives on Theatre of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment)
proponent of this notion was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, in his Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles, argued that theatre could not improve the morality of the...
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addition to his career as an actor and librettist, Dancourt authored a rebuttal to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles. Rousseau...
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Voltaire (redirect from M. Thomson)
from China to Italy in 1588 and carried on translating in Latin the Chinese classics while residing in Salerno. Diderot, in a letter to E.M. Falconet,...
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Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (category Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772))
sympathy in regard to music and theater, and led to a close association with the Encyclopaedists Diderot, Baron d'Holbach, d'Alembert, Marmontel, Morellet...
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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q) (section M)
Gerson Jean Grenier Jean Guitton Jean Hyppolite Jean le Rond d'Alembert Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Jean Leclerc (theologian) Jean Meslier Jean Nicod Jean Nicod...
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light, suffice to form the images of all objects". In the entry on shadow in L'Encyclopédie, the great project of Diderot and d'Alembert, he differentiates...
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1780s (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
Earl of Milltown, Irish politician (b. 1701) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717) November 1 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger...
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intermediary facilitating interactions between the French encyclopedic scholars D'Alembert, Condorcet, and Bossut and the Milanese philosophers Cesare Beccaria,...
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Timeline of Paris (category Articles to be expanded from November 2024)
selected to design the building. 1662 14 February – Installation of the salle des machines, a hall for theater performances and spectacles, in the Tuileries...
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