À procura da música sem sombra: Chabanon e a autonomia da música no século XVIII

Em À procura da música sem sombra, Lia Tomás analisa o trabalho do pensador francês Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon (1730-92), cujo livro Da música em si e suas relações com a palavra, as línguas, a poesia e o teatro foi uma espécie de manifesto erudito a favor da música instrumental enquanto gênero autônomo, conceito que teria tido fundamental importância para o romantismo do século XIX e os movimentos que o sucederam. Tomás disseca a obra de Chabanon mantendo o autor no seu contexto. Violinista, amigo de Voltaire, Chabanon era um ativo participante das discussões sobre arte e música do seu tempo. Opôs-se às ideias musicais de Rousseau e outros enciclopedistas, como a origem unitária da música e da palavra, o papel subalterno da música na ópera e a não diferenciação entre linguagem verbal e musical. A autora discorre com precisão sobre os subsídios estéticos e filosóficos fornecidos por Chabanon para a reflexão sobre a música instrumental, e que foram elaborados com o objetivo explícito de delimitar as características desta e demonstrar suas diferenças e autonomia: a música sem sombra a que se refere Lia Tomás. O trabalho traz na íntegra a primeira parte do livro de Chabanon, escrito de maneira deliciosamente coloquial e por isso praticamente ignorado em sua época.

D. Paul. H.G. Moehringii ... Historiae medicinales, iunctis fere ubique corollariis, praxin medicam illustrantibus ...

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The great asymmetry : America's closest allies in times of war

This dissertation focuses on military cooperation between the United States and its special allies. It argues that alliance expectations determine the level of military cooperation, while two intervening variables - the level of government cohesion and military capabilities - determine its implementation. This study also shows how secondary states deploy strategies to overcome power asymmetries through bilateral concessions, international organizations and by appealing to principle. The focus of the research is on special allies, as they have the most to gain or lose by going along with American plans. My contention is that secondary allies can rarely influence the dominant ally decisively, but they can act autonomously and resist to pressures exerted by the stronger alliance partner. The argument builds on three central claims. First, power asymmetries between allies translate into different assessments of international threats. Second, when disagreements over threats arise, the outcome of intra-alliance bargaining is not necessarily dictated by the preferences of the stronger power. Third, secondary states, as opposed to the dominant partner, face unique constraints when facing major foreign policy decisions, i.e. they face a trade-off between establishing a credible reputation as an alliance partner in a politically feasible way while minimizing domestic audience costs. To examine the theoretical puzzle presented by asymmetric military cooperation, I introduce a causal explanation that builds on neoclassical realism, to zone in on the interaction between systemic and domestic variables. My research makes a contribution to alliance theory and foreign policy decision-making by studying how special allies respond to American decisions in times of threat and how systemic constraints are channeled through state-level variables. To investigate the causal link between threat perception, alliance expectations and domestic constraints, this study relies on the method of structured focused comparison with three detailed case studies. The focus is on the initial decision made by special allies regarding whether or not to participle in joint mobilization with the United States. The decision-making process is presented from the perspective of secondary allied states and measures the explanatory factors that motivated the decision on military cooperation. The case studies are the UK, Canada and Australia’s response to the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq during the period of 2001 to 2003.

Encyclopédie méthodique : Histoire naturelle des animaux ...

T. 1: Histoire naturelle des animaux (Contiene : Introduction a l'histoire naturelle par. M. Daubenton; Les animaux quadrupedes et les cetaces ; Ornitologie, par M. Mauduyt ; Discours genaraux sur la nature des oiseaux [y la primera parte del Dictionnaire d'Ornithologie] (viii, lxxxxii, 691 p., [1] en bl.) -- T. 2: Oiseaux (Contiene : Dictionnaire d'ornithologie; Les animaux quadrupedes, ovipares, et les serpents par M. Daubenton ([4], 712 p.) -- T. 3: Les poissons ([4], lx, 435 p., [1] en bl.) -- T. 4-8: Insectes / par M. Olivier ([4], ccclxxiij, [3] en bl., 331, [1] en bl. ; [4], 793, [1] en bl. ; [4], 704 ; [4], 827, [1] en bl. ; [4], 722 p.; contiene tambien "Discours préliminaire et plan du dictionnaire des insectes / par M. Mauduyt" (cclxxxviii p.)) -- T. 9-10: Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustaces, des arachnides et des insectes / par M. Latreille ... et m. Godart ; [Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Serville et Guerin] ([4], 828 ; [6], 832, [2] p.)

Les Géorgiques de Virgile /

NUC 634, 0106919.

Gerardi Joannis Vossii Rhetorices contractae, sive Partitionum oratoriarum : libri quinque ... /

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P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera quae supersunt : tomus tertius.

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Quaestio medico-chirurgica, quodlibertariis disputationibus manè discutienda ... M. Joanne-Claudio Munier ... praeside ... An tumoris cancrosi radicitus ablati regeneratio rursùs Chirurgiae tradenda?

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Jacobi Vanierii ... Praedium Rusticum.

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The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ... to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings,

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The Psalms of David : with notes, devotional and practical, referring to the New Testament, extracted with very little alteration from Dr. Horne's commentary on the Book of Psalms /

With: Translations and paraphrases in verse ... / by a Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : D. Hunter Blair and M.S. Bruce, 1829.

A commentary on the book of Psalms.

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