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Passion and paranoia with the Pre-Raphaelites
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Desperate Romantics By Franny Moyle JOHN MURRAY Pounds 20 (340pp)
Pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897
The Pre-Raphaelite story has much of the soap opera about it. A
cast of central characters, with bit players, interact in dramatic
episodes that can be endlessly retold. Historical figures who verge
on the fictional arouse partisan likings and loathings on behalf of
Rossetti and Lizzie, Ruskin and Effie, Holman Hunt and Annie Miller.
Triangular relationships have an archetypal resonance, as handsome
John Millais rescues Effie Ruskin from a loveless, sexless marriage,
William Morris loses ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche.(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review
; ...Pp. x, 316. The absence of Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) from the standard...written too much that was not. Malebranche was a celebrated and powerful...The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche, edited by Steven Nadler...
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Fafara, Richard J. The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the Letters of Etienne Gilson & Henri Gouhier (1920-1936).(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...Richard J. Fafara's The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the...Gilson's Student Essay on Malebranche" with Sorbonne Professor Victor...the great French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche, the subject of Gouhier's...
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Debating the origin of evil in a godly universe.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...French priests. Of course, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) and Antoine...fail, or when we face death. Malebranche refined Leibniz's view by...simplicity of the means." Instead, Malebranche's Creator "wills to accomplish...
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Journal of the Hitory of Philosophy: Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2005.(Philosophical Abstract)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...Knowledge in Descartes and Malebranche, LAWRENCE NOLAN and JOHN WHIPPLE...commentators have argued that Nicolas Malebranche mounts a devastating internal...authors defend Descartes against Malebranche's strongest argument by appealing...
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Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2001. (Philosophical Abstracts).
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...the union of mind and body. Malebranche's Distinction Between General...particular volitions is central to Nicolas Malebranche's theories of divine activity...occasionalism. Almost everything Malebranche says directly on the subject...
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Philosophy: vol. 83, no. 3, July 2008.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...article examines this aspect of his thought. Hume, Malebranche and "Rationalism," P. J. E. KAIL Traditionally...engagement with a canonical rationalist is with Nicolas Malebranche. The author shows that the fundamental differences...
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La Folle du logis dans les prisons de l'ame, Etudes sur la psychologie de l'imagination au dix-septieme siecle.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Symposium
; ...dangerous and damaging to reason if uncontrolled. It was Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), a Cartesian philosopher of the generation...known especially to specialists of the period. For a Nicolas Coeffeteau, author of a Traite des passions humaines...
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Leibniz on Concurrence and Efficient Causation
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy
; ...offered three very different answers to this question: occasionalism, mere conservationism, and concurrentism.1 Nicolas Malebranche, among others, defended occasionalism, the view that God is the only causal agent in nature.2 We do not causally...
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Descartes: An Intellectual Biography.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...natural philosopher and not as a metaphysician or epistemologist. He blames the biased use made of Descartes by Nicolas Malebranche for the continuing emphasis placed upon Descartes as an epistemologist - an interpretation that continues to be...
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Inspirational oasis of serenity found in poetry
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Poetry gently demands our full attention. Or, as Stein said, quoting the 17th century French theologian Nicolas Malebranche: "Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul." Another of my favorite poets, one to whom I return often...
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