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(i-lū'mi-nizm),
A psychotic state of exaltation in which one has delusions and hallucinations of communion with supernatural or exalted beings.
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Therefore, if democracy and Fundamental Human Rights have gone through more than two hundred years being interpreted and indoctrinated by illuminists matrices, perhaps the rescue and recovery of regional experiences offer not merely the derogatory denial of the phenomenon, but the critical subsuming of these matrices and the exploitation of their potential elements of transformation, as is the case of critical constitutionalism.
Critical Historicity of Latin American and Caribbean Constitutionalism/Historicidade Critica do Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano e Caribenho
Theater in Portugal--as a national concept--came about during the second half of the seventeenth century, when the illuminist aesthetic is implemented through institutions like Arcadia Lusitana and the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon.
National theaters on the Iberian Peninsula
Iwasaki, F., 1993, "Mujeres al borde de la perfection: Rosa de Santa Maria y las alumbradas de Lima [Women at the edge of perfection: Rosa de Santa Maria and the illuminist women of Lima]," Hispanic American Historical Review 73(4), pp.
The enduring popularity of Rosa de Lima, first saint of the Americas: women, bodies, sainthood, and national identity
These efforts, despite sharply reflecting illuminist thinking that industrialization was beneficial to the economic and social development of a country, were not in the interest of the upper classes with their landed estates, especially in the peak days of coffee production in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Rural heritage of early Brazilian industrialists: its impact on managerial orientation
In this sense, Octave Mannoni analyses a scene from Casanova's memoirs, in which the cynical illuminist (an "esprit fort"), posing as a magician to ridicule and swindle the "fools" around him, falls into his own trap.
Carlos Castaneda: the uses and abuses of ethnomethodology and emic studies
Jerusha McCormack cites, on the one hand, the 'Irish Bull' - a kind of verbal bluffing that 'keeps the form of logic, while outraging reason and bringing it to a violent halt' (9) - and on the other, the influence of the Taoist philosopher Chuang-Tsu, (10) whom Wilde described as 'something more than a metaphysician and an illuminist. He sought to destroy society ...
The anarchist aphorist: Wilde and Gottesman, paradox and subversion
The illuminist is one who attaches himself to the sign, the experience, without regard for the invisible substance of a contact which transcends experience." Cf.
Conscious experience and science: signs of transition
In this sense, while being hugely indebted to the lay thought emanating from Illuminist France, we Europeans are at the moment missing a major lesson to be derived from Illuminism: wisdom means humility, and vice versa.
Maltese literature with a view: an interview with Oliver Friggieri
Illuminist conspiracy to enslave the world to intellectuals.
Why I am a conservative: a symposium
And for Coppe as antinomian illuminist, see Nigel Smith, Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640-1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), esp.
The covenantal quietism of Tobias Crisp (1)
This book, one of a successful series published by the University of Milan, very clearly describes the scientific, architectural and artistic innovations that took place at Baveno, mainly promoted by the illuminist governments of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Granito di Baveno; Minerali, scultura, architettura ("The Baveno Granite; Minerals, Sculpture and Architecture")
is not a Christian but an Illuminist, worshiping obelisks and hanging out with Masons.
Vote for Christ our saviour: Jesus is a silent candidate in the U.S. presidential race
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