Michael Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5474-705X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vitality or Weakness
This article explores the role of nature in two strands of contemporary materialist philosophy: new materialism, and transcendental materialism. Through an analysis of these strands of materialism via the work of Jane Bennett, William E. Connolly, Catherine Malabou, and Adrian Johnston, the article attempts to delineate these perspectives into the opposed camps of monist and dialectical materialisms. The implications of these differing materialis…
Prolegomena to a Materialist Humanism
This article sets the agenda for a new materialist humanism through a critique and analysis of theories of materialist subjectivity in recent French philosophy. I begin with a critique of the lack of a properly internal account of the human subject in the work of Alain Badiou, arguing that his disavowal of any sort of humanism and a dismissal of the natural sciences leaves him without a way to conceptualize the internal activity of the human subj…
Fanatical Schemes
Resilience Theory as an Approach to Sustainability Analysis
True France
Les Deux Terres Promises
Short notices
R. H. Britnell, Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300–1325 (1985), xvi+304 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50). Alison Hanham, The Celys and their World. An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century (1985), xv+472 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth Century London (1985), ix+258 (Methuen, London, £28). Kathryn Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, …
Rural Society and French Politics
Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avai…
Rural Society and French Politics
Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make ava…
Short notices
J. A. Sharpe, Crime in Seventeenth‐century England. A County Study (1983), vii+218 (Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, £25.00). Andrew Charlesworth (ed.), An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1348–1900 (1983), 197 (Croom Helm, £16.95). Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa (1982), ix+101 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, paperback, £4.50). Michael Sanderson, Education, Economic Change and Society in England 1780–1870…
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Rural Society and French Politics
Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make ava…
Short notices
J. A. Sharpe, Crime in Seventeenth‐century England. A County Study (1983), vii+218 (Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, £25.00). Andrew Charlesworth (ed.), An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1348–1900 (1983), 197 (Croom Helm, £16.95). Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa (1982), ix+101 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, paperback, £4.50). Michael Sanderson, Education, Economic Change and Society in England 1780–1870…
Rural Society and French Politics
Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avai…
Short notices
R. H. Britnell, Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300–1325 (1985), xvi+304 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50). Alison Hanham, The Celys and their World. An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century (1985), xv+472 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth Century London (1985), ix+258 (Methuen, London, £28). Kathryn Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, …
Les Deux Terres Promises
True France
Resilience Theory as an Approach to Sustainability Analysis
Fanatical Schemes
Prolegomena to a Materialist Humanism
This article sets the agenda for a new materialist humanism through a critique and analysis of theories of materialist subjectivity in recent French philosophy. I begin with a critique of the lack of a properly internal account of the human subject in the work of Alain Badiou, arguing that his disavowal of any sort of humanism and a dismissal of the natural sciences leaves him without a way to conceptualize the internal activity of the human subj…
Vitality or Weakness
This article explores the role of nature in two strands of contemporary materialist philosophy: new materialism, and transcendental materialism. Through an analysis of these strands of materialism via the work of Jane Bennett, William E. Connolly, Catherine Malabou, and Adrian Johnston, the article attempts to delineate these perspectives into the opposed camps of monist and dialectical materialisms. The implications of these differing materialis…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)