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Beneath the extraordinary range of Bellow's fiction, unifying his stretch from New World quest to Old World criticisms, from Rousseau to reason, lie several constant questions. How can a man lead a good life? What use is the new age's vaunted individuality if it turns society into a jungle and leaves human beings cut off from each other and the past? When he is advised to be himself, young Augie March replies: "I have always tried to become what I am. But what if what I am by nature isn't good enough?" Mr. Sammler...
...esteem them, to educate us when young, to take care of us when grown up, to advise us, to console us, to render our lives easy and agreeable. These are the duties of a woman at all times, and what they should be taught in their infancy. --J.J. Rousseau, Emile...
Your revolution occurred in an age of intellectual ferment when men such as Locke and later Montesquieu, Rousseau and Hume were seeking to apply logic and reason to understanding man and his institutions embodying this tradition of logical enquiry...
...Gluck lived in Vienna, his music pupils included the Habsburg princesses, so when one of them became Queen Marie Antoinette two years ago, Gluck began planning to restage his operas in Paris. Although the pro-Italian faction there is strong (once headed by Philosopher and sometime Composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Gluck determined to make his opera even more starkly dramatic than before. The revised libretto stays closer to Euripedes' original, restores Hercules as the hero who saves King Admetus and Queen Alcestis from death. Gluck has tightened many scenes and rescored his recitatives for full orchestra. At 62, with...
...they acknowledge, but the British monarchy is all that stands between the Americans and discord, disunity, and that brutish world of brutish men that the English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes envisioned more than a century ago. These skeptics dismiss as naive optimism the arguments of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that natural man is good and is corrupted only by society. Nor, they go on, is equality, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence, a feasible goal for any people. Man may be created equal, even as the Declaration avers, but he soon creates his own inequalities...