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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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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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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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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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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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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Pygmalion (Rousseau) (category Operas based on classical mythology)
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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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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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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