Sartre's thoughts on the eighteenth century are ambiguous and schematic at best but they do contain an interesting analysis of materialism that continues from this period through to the early 1940s. Even though Sartre refers to the eighteenth-century as a paradise soon-to-be lost, it is argued here that his condemnation of atomistic materialism as it was conceived during this period is directly linked to his rejection of the dialectical materialism of the Communist Party and bourgeois ideology. This article examines the relationship between these different modes of thought and seeks to demonstrate how Sartre's take on the eighteenth century provided a stern warning to the communists about the pitfalls associated with basing a revolution on materialist doctrine.
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Sartre's Eighteenth Century: A Model for Engagement?
Wesley Gunter
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2014
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- Research Article
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- 57–68 (12 total)
The Nineteenth Century
Not Forgotten but Rather Revitalized
Christine Haynes
In a self-reflective introduction to what was, sadly, his last publication, an essay collection, John Merriman lamented that the nineteenth century has been forgotten among historians of France. Noting the absence of books on this period in the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 99–127 (29 total)
Representation of Innovation in Seventeenth-Century England
A View from Natural Philosophy
Benoît Godin
To scholars, the concept of innovation is intimately linked to science and industry. But this is a very recent story. Before the twentieth century, the concept was mainly used in religious and political affairs. The concept had a pejorative meaning
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 24–42 (19 total)
The Nineteenth-Century Dime Western, Boyhood, and Empowered Adolescence
Martin Woodside
ideas of adolescence and popular culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. Specifically, public reaction to the crime gestures to broader cultural connections between boys, boyhood, and frontier mythos embedded in readings of the American
New Feminist Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth Century
Melissa Feinberg
Maria Bucur, Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon , London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, xi +149 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-350-0265-4. Maria Bucur, The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World
Movement and the Transformation of Siberia in the Eighteenth Century
Alison K. Smith
In histories of the settlement of Siberia, the eighteenth century is often glossed over. As the story goes, a first wave of Cossacks and servitors ( sluzhilye liudi ) at the end of the sixteenth century was quickly followed by the movement of
An Ethical Approach to Encountering Nineteenth-Century Girls
Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
to tease out the potential for at-home theatricals to have encouraged nineteenth-century middle-class English girls 2 to explore alternative identities and possible futures, I consulted many girls’ diaries, letters, scripts, juvenile newspapers, and
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 122–137 (16 total)
Translating the Concept of Experiment in the Late Eighteenth Century
From the English Philosophical Context to the Greek-Speaking Regions of the Ottoman Empire
Eirini Goudarouli and Dimitris Petakos
will investígate the transfer of the concept of experiment from the seventeenth-century British philosophical context to the eighteenth-century Greek-speaking intellectual context. 2 To be exact, we will study the dissemination of the concept of
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–97 (22 total)
Contagious Humanism in Early Nineteenth-Century German-Language Press
Heidi Hakkarainen
Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe , which charts the change of politico-social language in German-speaking Europe, was humanism . The concept emerged in the beginning of the nineteenth century and was associated with a larger semantic field of human
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–46 (25 total)
“The Pearl Harbor of the Twenty-first Century”?
A Comparative Analysis of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in History Textbooks
Daniel Berman and Jeremy Stoddard
the memories of Pearl Harbor remained popular throughout the remainder of the twentieth century. Some military strategists even invoked “Pearl Harbor” to warn of potential gaps or failures in US national security. During the early 1990s, debates about
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 91–113 (23 total)