Jack Undank
Biographic Data
| ID | 966794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Undank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Undank |
| SIGNATURE | UNDANK J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Framed Narratives
On Being "Human"
WHO WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE HUMAN, if he or she could? It should come easily to a human being, attached as being human is to his or her essence or definition-an inescapable activity or prerogative or burden. The name, the Word human, cannot be wrenched away from the Thing it represents, though it threatens always to exceed it, that is, to summon it away from other, lesser conditions and to draw it toward higher ones. The princely faculty of humanity…
Diderot
Jacques le fataliste and the Uses of Representation
Over and again the rumor of something Above spreads among us: Et Jacques disait que son capitaine disait que tout a ete ecrit lahaut. It comes to us as an echo resounding from a legendary, authoritative source, which may or may not, like Jacques' captain, still be alive. A Divinity may or may not be ultimately responsible for this tale of a fabulous skywriting. We can in any case be reasonably sure that Diderot didn't believe a word of it. He mus…
Beaumarchais' Transformations
Word and Image
Between the Eye and the Word
The magnificent gown and cloak that spread like an isosceles triangle from the shoulders of a standing female figure in JeanFranpois De Troy's La declaration d'amour (1729) seem to promise a significance we can only try to imagine. The reasons for the cloak within the painting and the context of the painting within its time are filled with problems that would charm Panofsky's and Gombrich's Boa Constructor,' the subtle beast with a hunger for ahi…
Diderot
The Romance of Interpretation
Diderot, inside, outside, and In-Between
Sighting and Signifying
L'acte de genbralisation tend a depouiller les concepts de tout ce qu'ils ont de sensible. A mesure que cet acte s'avance, les spectres corporels s'9vanouissent; les notions se retirent peff ia peu de l'imagination vers l'entendement; et les idbes deviennent purement intellectuelles. Alors le philosophe spc il ne lui reste plus que le spectacle de ses pens&es, et que la conscience de la hauteur a laquelle il s'est 1leve et ou il n'est peut-etre d…
Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting
A Dialogue with Arthur M. Wilson
Virtue in Distress
Diderot
Pascal's Pensees and the Enlightenment
Voltaire's Theatre
Eighteenth Century French Studies
L'Esthetique Circeenne, Etude Critique, suivi d'un choix de textes relatifs a l'esthetique circeenne (1686-1800)
Diderot and Montaigne. The Essais and the Shaping of Diderot's Humanism
Falconet
Le "Pour et contre" et son temps
Le "Pour et contre" et son temps
Diderot and Montaigne. The Essais and the Shaping of Diderot's Humanism
Falconet
Eighteenth Century French Studies
L'Esthetique Circeenne, Etude Critique, suivi d'un choix de textes relatifs a l'esthetique circeenne (1686-1800)
Pascal's Pensees and the Enlightenment
Voltaire's Theatre
Virtue in Distress
Diderot
A Dialogue with Arthur M. Wilson
Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting
Sighting and Signifying
L'acte de genbralisation tend a depouiller les concepts de tout ce qu'ils ont de sensible. A mesure que cet acte s'avance, les spectres corporels s'9vanouissent; les notions se retirent peff ia peu de l'imagination vers l'entendement; et les idbes deviennent purement intellectuelles. Alors le philosophe spc il ne lui reste plus que le spectacle de ses pens&es, et que la conscience de la hauteur a laquelle il s'est 1leve et ou il n'est peut-etre d…
The Romance of Interpretation
Diderot, inside, outside, and In-Between
Diderot
Between the Eye and the Word
The magnificent gown and cloak that spread like an isosceles triangle from the shoulders of a standing female figure in JeanFranpois De Troy's La declaration d'amour (1729) seem to promise a significance we can only try to imagine. The reasons for the cloak within the painting and the context of the painting within its time are filled with problems that would charm Panofsky's and Gombrich's Boa Constructor,' the subtle beast with a hunger for ahi…
Word and Image
Beaumarchais' Transformations
On Being "Human"
WHO WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE HUMAN, if he or she could? It should come easily to a human being, attached as being human is to his or her essence or definition-an inescapable activity or prerogative or burden. The name, the Word human, cannot be wrenched away from the Thing it represents, though it threatens always to exceed it, that is, to summon it away from other, lesser conditions and to draw it toward higher ones. The princely faculty of humanity…
Diderot
Jacques le fataliste and the Uses of Representation
Over and again the rumor of something Above spreads among us: Et Jacques disait que son capitaine disait que tout a ete ecrit lahaut. It comes to us as an echo resounding from a legendary, authoritative source, which may or may not, like Jacques' captain, still be alive. A Divinity may or may not be ultimately responsible for this tale of a fabulous skywriting. We can in any case be reasonably sure that Diderot didn't believe a word of it. He mus…
Framed Narratives
Historical and Literary Studies (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (13 works) · Literature (10 works) · French Literature and Criticism (6 works) · History (6 works) · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)