Reviews for Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought

The average rating for Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-13 00:00:00 Dan Gopstein The Symbolists here are the 'first wave' of that movement, poets who did not actually call themselves Symbolists at all, but who definitely pointed the way for those who followed. The 'crisis' they faced was that "they came to realize that they were not independent of language and that language was not a reliable tool of expression." Specifically, Porter presents studies of the poets Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, and Verlaine to illustrate and explain his thesis. Note that this is a serious scholarly study and not light reading. The book is dense in content and concept. The ability to read French would also be useful. The attempts at Freudian explanations would have seemed dated even the twenty-some years ago this book was written. None the less, the studies are interesting and the basic thesis, I think, makes sense, and adds to our understanding of these poets, their work, and their time.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-19 00:00:00 Erom Fonz L'ottavo e il nono capitolo, Il Cristianesimo e i sogni (secoli II-VII) e A proposito dei sogni di Helmbrecht padre 🥴