The insurgent barricade [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Traugott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459577503321
• Autore: Traugott Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-520-94773-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.32/309409033
• Soggetti: Revolutions - Europe - History - 19th century; Revolutions - Europe - History - 18th century; Insurgency - Europe - History - 19th century; Insurgency - Europe - History - 18th century; Barricades (Military science) - Social aspects - Europe - History - 19th century; Barricades (Military science) - Social aspects - Europe - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; Europe History, Military 19th century; Europe History, Military 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Insurgent Barricade -- 2. The First Barricades -- 3. The Barricades of the Fronde -- 4. The Long-Term Incidence of Barricade Events and the Lost Barricades of the French Revolution -- 5. Barricades in Belgium, 1787 - 1830 -- 6. The Barricade Conquers Europe, 1848 -- 7. The Functions of the Barricade -- 8. Barricades and the Culture of Revolution -- APPENDIX A. Database of European Barricade Events -- APPENDIX B. Did the Wave of Revolutionism in 1848 Originate in Paris or Palermo? -- APPENDIX C. The Barricade and Technological Innovations in Transport and Communications -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, ; and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott traces the barricade from its beginnings in the sixteenth century, to its refinement in the insurrectionary struggles of the long nineteenth century, on through its emergence as an icon of an international culture of revolution. Exploring the most compelling moments of its history, Traugott finds that the barricade is more than a physical structure; it is part of a continuous insurrectionary lineage that features spontaneous collaboration even as it relies on recurrent patterns of self-conscious collective action. A case study in how techniques of protest originate and evolve, The Insurgent Barricade tells how the French perfected a repertoire of revolution over three centuries, and how students, exiles, and itinerant workers helped it spread across Europe.

Portrait / / Jean-Luc Nancy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796718203321
• Autore: Nancy Jean-Luc
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8232-8146-9; 0-8232-7996-0; 0-8232-7997-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Lit Z
• Altri autori (Persone): CliftSarah; LibrettJeffrey S; SparksSimon
• Disciplina: 704.942
• Soggetti: Portraits - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated from the French.; This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction. The Subject of the Portrait -- The Autonomous Portrait -- Resemblance -- Recall -- Look -- L’altro ritratto -- Character -- The ; Eye -- Visageity -- Mimesis -- Withdrawn Presence -- Ipseity -- Theophany -- Revelation -- Divine Abandonment -- Dis-figuration -- Eclipse -- Infinite Detachment -- Coda I -- Coda II -- Coda III -- Notes -- Figures
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy’s work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis. Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy’s book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA. The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.