#enlightment

[saintjustienne]

Saw the tomb of Algarotti in Pisa and cried.

In one of his letters to Frederick he wrote "my name will live alongside that of Your Majesty" and in a way that's what actually happened.

This detail never fails to make me emotional.

[philoursmars]

Marseille. Dans le palais de la Bourse, un spectacle basé sur "Les Quatre Saisons" de Vivaldi : "Enlightment". (bon, c'est rapide et tronçonné mais le spectacle durait une bonne demi-heure...)

[dieabadass]

You deserve someone who wants to give you a fucking text back, ya know? Someone who wants you, only you, and makes you feel wanted. Someone who can’t help but message you first thing in the morning when the sun is coming through the curtain, and they’re barely waking. Someone who wants to spend their drunken Friday nights with you, but also their lazy Sundays. Someone who holds their one-person umbrella right above you when it’s pouring down, so that you’re sheltered, even if it means they get soaked through. You deserve someone who thinks of you, often. Someone who calls you on the phone at the end of a long day, because they want to hear the sound of your voice before they drift off to sleep. Someone who makes plans with you on a Tuesday evening, because the weekend is just too far away, and who cares if we have to go to work the next day. Someone who says definitely, not maybe, and follows through. You deserve to hear a song on the radio that makes you melt on the inside at the thought of this someone. Someone who could watch you sleeping for hours at a time, and be perfectly content in the grace and stillness of that moment. Someone who steals a kiss when you’re mid-sentence and least expecting to find their lips. Someone who will happily pig out on pizza with you in bed, and not judge the sweatpants & top knot look you’re sporting. Someone who is just that into you. You deserve someone who challenges the both of you constantly; someone who makes you strive to be better each day, because they’re trying to be better too. Someone you can count on to stick around when the shit hits the fan, which it will. Someone who chooses to lift you up, always. You deserve magic, and fireworks…You deserve someone who will always be careful with your heart, because they know just how fragile it already was before they held it. Someone who’s heart aches whenever yours does. Someone who wakes up next to you each day feeling like they’ve hit the jackpot, over and over again, and thinking what on earth did they do in their past life to be so damn lucky. You deserve someone’s complete attention. Someone who looks at you, and I mean really sees you, and all of the beauty you hold. You deserve to be someone’s first choice. Someone’s best friend. Someone’s partner in crime. Someone’s everything. You deserve to be loved; and loved extraordinarily well. And to be told that you are loved, every single day

[lesewut]

The "Dialectic of Enlightenment", written by Marx Horkheimer (1895 - 1973) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969) and first published by Querido in Amsterdam in 1947, is one of the most important texts of 20th century critical theory. Philosophical criticism, an examination of fascism and the results of many years of empirical research in the USA merge here to form a theory of mass culture that is still astonishingly relevant 75 years later. The authors and scholars of the Frankfurt School draw attention to the flipside of technical and social progress: Enlightenment as the rule of reason and the subjugation of nature for human purposes.

"Dialectic of Enlightenment" was written during World War II, a time of immense social and political upheaval. The authors aimed to understand how the Enlightenment, which was supposed to bring about reason, freedom, and progress, had instead led to new forms of domination, totalitarianism, and barbarism.

The central thesis is that the Enlightenment, while aiming to liberate humanity from myth and superstition through reason, has paradoxically resulted in new forms of oppression and unfreedom. This dialectical process means that progress and regression are intertwined. The authors propose that myth and Enlightenment are not opposites but rather interconnected. The Enlightenment's attempt to demystify the world has resulted in a new form of myth, where science and technology are worshipped without critical reflection, leading to a new form of domination.

Horkheimer and Adorno's work is a powerful critique of modernity and a call to rethink the promises and pitfalls of the Enlightenment.

[sillymickel]

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[officialdruu]

222REAL 

[sspacegodd]

Attachment is nothing to cling to.

[solarphaze]

Napoleon 4

[ardent-reflections]

I am trying to wander more. I am trying to breathe more, to love my lostness.

Noor Hindi

[sartre-mi-pana]

I just found the title "Spinozismus Detectus" very funny :(

[historybizarre]

For most of his life, Thomas Jefferson was obsessed with mammoths. (More correctly, he was obsessed with American mastodons, tree-chewing cousins of mammoths that lived in the Northern part of the continent—but at the time, he and the rest of the world thought they were mammoths.) He liked theorizing about mammoths, he liked talking about mammoths, he liked making his friends rack up exorbitant postage bills in order to mail him mammoth teeth.

And for decades, from the mid-1760s onward, he was particularly dedicated to one surprisingly high-stakes activity—convincing a famous French naturalist that mammoths were still out there, tearing up the wild West with their tusks.

[saintjustienne]

Salut citoyens & citoyennes !

This is the first time I write something on here. You can call me Florelle. I created this blog mostly to talk about my interests in peace, especially the French Revolution. I've started to dive more into the subject two years ago and all the things I learnt gave me a lot of inspiration and hope.

I'm mostly interested in the history of jacobinism, robespierrism, babouvism, their influence and legacy in the XIX century. And also the role and the condition of women during the revolution.

Apart from Robespierre, my favorite revolutionary - or better to say the first that caught my attention when I've started to study the Frev - is Saint-Just (the reason behind my nickname). Special mentions for Marat, Georges Couthon, Augustin and Charlotte Robespierre, Éléonore and Elisabeth Duplay, Philippe Le Bas and Theroigne de Méricourt.

As an italian myself, I'm very fond of Filippo Buonarroti and I find his life and works very fascinating. I'm currently reading more about him and his legacy so maybe, if someone is interested, I could think about translating (since the texts are mostly in italian) some parts and share them. I've found very useful sources on here and I want to contribute at least a little to this passionate community.

English is not my first language and, while I think I'm kinda good with it, I apologize in advance for any possible mistake. I can read and understand french but my written french is still not the best and I'm still improving.

It is superfluous to say but, of course, I'm not an expert. First of all I'm a literature student which is also very passionate about history and is always looking forward to learn more.

EDIT: this started as a frev related post but I'll also share/talk about my other interests. They will be mostly about the 18th century in general though.

Disclaimer: if you see me sometimes retweeting things about royals from the past, please don't mistake me for a monarchist. I'm just interested in few of them as historical figures (and mostly for the drama of their lives).

That's all.

[philoursmars]

Marseille. Dans le palais de la Bourse, un spectacle basé sur "Les Quatre Saisons" de Vivaldi : "Enlightment".

[dieabadass]

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Lord of Majesty and Generosity; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, to learn what is actually going on behind the scenes in this world of good vs evil and what lies beyond the veil.

[sillymickel]

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