NIVEL AVANZADO: Jonathan Swift

An introduction to Swift's A Modest Proposal (audio—In Our Time): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3650



Louis Cazamian: Universal Criticism: Arbuthnot and Swift.

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Una conferencia de Leopold Damrosch sobre la vida y mundo de Swift.





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La curiosa anécdota de Swift y las lunas marcianas.


Había una edición en red del Journal to Stella, convertido en blog—una forma bastante adecuada. Pero desapareció. Ahora tenemos el texto en Project Gutenberg.
 

Y aquí una (mala) edición en red de Gulliver's Travels en Project Gutenberg—uno de esos sitios web a los que hay que volver continuamente en esta carrera.

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La Academia de Proyectistas—una sátira

 

 

 

 

Y una analogía:


The Machine Stops y The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.

NIVEL AVANZADO: Daniel Defoe

- Daniel Defoe: The Collection of the Lilly Library: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/defoe/

- Si alguien hace el trabajo sobre Defoe, hay bibliografías críticas más completas sobre él (y sobre todos los demás autores que vemos) aquí:
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology: http://bit.ly/abiblio



- Un audio de la BBC sobre Robinson Crusoe

 
- Un capítulo de Ian Watt sobre Defoe como novelista. 


- Related works: Robinsonade

Campe, J. H. The New Robinson. 1779.
Wyss, Johann R. The Swiss Family Robinson. Zurich, 1813.
Ballantyne, R. M. The Coral Island. 1858.
Verne, Jules. Deux ans de vacances. 1891.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. 1954.




- Otras "memorias" tras Defoe...
 

Cleland, John (1710-1789).  Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or, Fanny Hill). Novel. 1748-49.
_____.  Memoirs of a Coxcomb. Novel. 1751.
_____.  The Surprises of Love. Novel. 1764.
_____.  The Woman of Honor. Novel. 1768.


Y un Robinson de fantasía, también muy colonialista, con isleños alados y voladores:

Robert Paltock (1697-1767). TheLife and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornishman. 1751.

NIVEL AVANZADO: From Queen Anne to the Georges

NIVEL AVANZADO:

Un poco de contexto histórico sobre el nuevo Reino Unido y la Inglaterra georgiana:




-  Queen Anne Prose (Saintsbury)




- "Classicism: The Spirit of Controversy" (Cazamian)
 

- Más obras de autores del XVIII se encuentran aquí: http://18th.eserver.org/
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NIVEL AVANZADO: Empiricism and the Mind

A video lecture on empiricism: Locke and Berkeley http://youtu.be/2HvUL7fSUwo


Un vídeo de Punset sobre el tema "El cerebro construye la realidad." Hablamos de la teoría de la percepción de Berkeley, que en cierto modo anticipó las teorías constructivistas de la realidad, y el papel de la mente en la generación de una imagen coherente de la realidad. Ahora la neurociencia es la que va en esa dirección "inmaterialista": "Redes 108: El cerebro construye la realidad." (Interview with Kia Nobre). Redes para la ciencia 30 Oct. 2011.

    http://www.redesparalaciencia.com/6320/redes/2011/redes-108-el-cerebro-construye-la-realidad





- Richard Dawkins on The Virtual World We Inhabit

- BBC. "¿Hace ruido un árbol al caer si no está allí nadie para escucharlo? La respuesta de la ciencia y de la filosofía." BBC News 4 May 2021.*

         https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-56780694

         2021

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NIVEL AVANZADO: Newton

ADVANCED:

Antecedentes (y subsiguientes) de la teoría física de Newton en Principia Mathematica (audio en español).


No es exactamente literatura, pero sí escritos, pensamiento y cultura del XVII-XVIII. Y crucial en la historia de la ciencia. 

Una conferencia sobre Newton (audio):
 

José Manuel Sánchez Ron, "El grande entre los grandes: Isaac Newton."

https://canal.march.es/es/coleccion/ciencia-traves-su-historia-ii-grande-entre-grandes-isaac-newton-20877

   


Isaac Newton: ¿Un genio mezquino?:





You can also watch: Isaac Newton: The Last Magician. Dir. Renny Bartlett. BBC Productions, 2013. Iff you find it online. 

Otherwise, here is an audio in Spanish:

 

 

—and a contemporary perspective on Newton's project of a mathematical consilience for science. Murray Gell-Mann, "Beauty, Truth, and... Physics?" https://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics#t-2708


Hay en Internet muchos audios extremadamente recomendables de Will Durant, un historiador de las grandes figuras de la cultura. Aquí su lección sobre Isaac Newton: https://youtu.be/dwrh0srwezc

Y un pequeño excurso sobre la infinidad del espacio y el tiempo, a cuenta de Newton, Einstein y Hawking.

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Newton y Leibniz: Las derivadas:

Some Early Periodicals and Newspapers

Early journalism, beyond occasional leaflets and pamphlets. Some 17th-century newspapers and periodicals:


An Abstract of some speciall forreigne occurrences brought down to the weekly newes of the 20 of December. Ed. Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne (no. 1 of their authorized foreign news pamphlets).  20 dec. 1638.

Diurnal Occurrences. Newspaper. By Samuel Pecke. 1641.


Mercurius Aulicus 1 (January 1643)


Mercurius Britannicus  1 (29 August 1643)


Mercurius Politicus. (Commonwealth Parlamentarian newspaper, 1650s; Official newspaper. By Marchamont Nedham. 1650-).

The Parliamentary Intelligencer. Newspaper. Ed. Henry Muddiman.  (No. 1, 26 Dec. 1659).

The Public Intelligencer. Official newspaper. By Marchamont Nedham. 1655.



Mercurius Publicus. Weekly. Ed. Henry Muddiman. 1660-.


The London Gazette. Founder ed. Henry Muddiman. 1665-20th century.
 

The Observator. Tory newspaper. Ed. Sir Roger L'Estrange. 1681-87.


The Turkish Spy. 1687-1694.

Athenian Mercury  (i.e. Athenian Gazette: Or Casuistical Mercury).  Newspaper.  Ed. John Dunton. 1690-97.


The Flying-Post. Newspaper. Ed. George Ridpath.  1695-1731.

The Gentleman's Journal. Ed. Peter Motteux. 1692-94.


The London Mercury. Periodical. Ed. Tom Brown. 1692.

The London Spy.  Ed. Ned Ward. Journal. 1698-1700.

The Post-man. Newspaper. 1695-1730.

The Post-Boy. Newspaper. Ed. Abel Roper. 1695-1736.


Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 

 

 

 

 

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NIVEL AVANZADO: The prehistory of journalism in the late 16th c.: Birth of the Foreign Correspondent

Other Augustan Prose Writers (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Other Augustan Prose Writers


Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
_____. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions , and Times, 1711

Anthony Ashley Cooper, The Third Earl of Shaftesbury (the grandson of Dryden's 'Achitophel') gave an influential formulation to many ideas of the Enlightenment. Optimistic theodicy, a defense that evil is necessary for the overall good of the universe (like Pope and Bolingbroke). He defends the notions of the Great Chain of Being and of a full universe. Social morality is derived from innate human benevolence: a belief based on the contemplation of the order of the Universe. He advocates a rational christianity.



Joseph Butler  (1692-1752)
_____. Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. 1736.

Butler was a Bishop of the Church of England. His main work, the Analogy of Religion,  is a defense of Christianity, which tries to justify the necessity of revealed religion from the evidence of order that we find in Nature. Butler is a product of the age of Reason in matters of religion: but he uses reason, or an appearance of reason, to affirm the doctrine of established Christianity. This was considered by many the definitive proof of divine order against the attacks of skeptical philosophy and science.





William Law (1686-1761)
______. The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertainment. 1726.
______. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. 1728.

Law was a protestant preacher and author of devotional works. His Serious Call tried to instigate a more emotional and passionate involvement in religion, away from the moderate indifference of the Church of England. Law's work was very influential, was read by many people, and had an important persional impact on people like Samuel Johnson or the religious reformer John Wesley. He stresses the importance of simple faith and even of mysticism; instead of appealing to reason he calls for feeling, religious emotion, and the personal relationship he imagines to exist between every individual Christian and God. (A Protestant revival).



 

John Wesley (1703-91)
_____. Journal. 1735- Pub. 1837.
_____. Works. 32 vols. 1771-4.

Wesley was the founder of Methodism, a Christian church which caused scandal at the time because of the presence of women preachers. Methodism was popular among the lower classes, as a form of self-valuing and the instigation of a democratic feeling in religion. The religious revival called "Evangelicalism" was initiated by John and Charles Wesley, following Law. Evangelicals try to achieve religious inspiration and eloquence, a personal feeling of salvation and renewal. The "enthusiam" of Methodists and other Evangelicals was criticized by the High Church Anglicans, like Joseph Butler, and by the Deists.




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