GOBINEAU, JOSEPH ARTHUR, COMTE DE

zhôzĕfˈ ärtürˈ kôNt də gōbēnōˈ, 1816–82, French diplomat and man of letters. The chief early French proponent of the theory of Nordic supremacy, he was antidemocratic and anti-Semitic. His major work was Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853–55, tr. The Inequality of Human Races, 1915). He also wrote short stories, notably Nouvelles asiatiques (1876, tr. Five Oriental Tales, 1925).

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville, the Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848
Book by Raymond Aron, Richard Howard, Helen Weaver; Basic Books, 1965
Subjects: Comte, Auguste--1798-1857, Marx, Karl, Montesquieu, Charles De Secondat--Baron De--1689-1755, Sociology--History, Tocqueville, Alexis De--1805-1859
...Auguste Comte 57...Alexis de Tocqueville 181...Opuscules which Auguste Comte republished at the...IV of the Systeme de Politique Positive...is, in the Cours de Philosophie Positive , Comte gave more universal...
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Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography
Book by Jocelyn Baines; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924, Novelists, English--20th Century--Biography
...Melgar, and Mr Xavier de Salas, who helped me...galley-proofs of his Joseph Conrad; Letters to William...he fought a duel with Joseph Daime, a journalist on...le Cercle Artistique de Marseills , Paris etc...under him; but the Bureau de lInscription forbade...
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Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography
Book by Jocelyn Baines; McGraw-Hill, 1960
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924
...Melgar, and Mr Xavier de Salas, who helped me...galley-proofs of his Joseph Conrad; Letters to William...he fought a duel with Joseph Daime, a journalist on...le Cercle Artistique de Marseille , Paris etc...worthy sir ny met pas de coeur . So, if you dont...
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French Opera at the Fin de Siecle: Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style
Book by Steven Huebner; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Opera--France--19th Century
...reprise of, say, Massenets Le Roi de Lahore were imminent, how different...the most prominent of whom was Arthur Pougin. In 1872 Pougin launched...commission to write Don Cesar de Bazan for the Opera-Comique...article by the urbane Monsieur de lOrchestre Arnold Mortier...
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The Renaissance: Savonarola Cesare Borgia -- Julius II. -- Leo X. Michael Angelo
Book by Arthur Count Gobineau, Oscar Levy; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1913
Subjects: Borgia, Cesare--1476?-1507, Julius--Ii--Pope--1443-1513, Leo--X--Pope--1475-1521, Michelangelo Buonarroti--1475-1564, Renaissance--Italy, Savonarola, Girolamo--1452-1498
...is only now beginning to appear above the waters of the receding nineteenth century, is Count Arthur de Gobineau. Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, was born at Ville dAvray, on the 14th of July, 1816. He was the descendant of a family...
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Primitive Marks of Modernity: Cultural Reconfigurations in the Franco-Italian Fin De Siecle *
Journal article by Nicoletta Pireddu; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006
Subjects: Modernism--Analysis
...University Press, 1985. Comte, Auguste. Discours...1844. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness...Mondadori, 1991. De Blasio, Abele...Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1991...Life. Trans. by Joseph W. Swain. New York...2001. Symons, Arthur. The Decadent Movement...dhygiene publique et de medecine legale...
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Orient Oder Rom? Qajar "Aryan" Architecture and Strzygowski's Art History
Journal article by Talinn Grigor; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Architecture, Islamic--Evaluation, Indo-Europeans--Evaluation, Iran--Social aspects, Islamic architecture--Evaluation, Orient oder Rom (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Strzygowski, Josef--Criticism and interpretation
...French diplomat and aristocrat Joseph-Arthur, comte de Gobineau, had commented on the Iranians...California Press, 1997). 20. Arthur de Gobineau, Trois ans en Asie (Paris...44. Between 1854 and 1858, Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) served as first...
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Foucault in the House of Usher: Some Historical Permutations in Poe's Gothic
Journal article by Stephen Dougherty; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 37, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gothic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poe, Edgar Allan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Racism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The House of Usher (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...should be, not some petty-bourgeois nationalist, but Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau. (149) For Anderson, as for Foucault, modern racism...Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970. Brown...
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Amphibiologie: Ethnographic Surrealism in French Discourse on Jazz
Journal article by Matthew F. Jordan; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Discourse analysis--Criticism and interpretation, Ethnology--Criticism and interpretation, France--Social aspects, Jazz music--Social aspects, Jazz--Social aspects, Surrealism--Evaluation
...relation to music and dance. For le negre, dance is, with music, the object of an irresistible passion. See Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobineau, Essai sur Iinegalite des races humaines, tm. 1 (Paris: Librairie de Paris, 1933), 359-62. (38.) Yvon Novy...
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Was Marie White? the Trajectory of a Question in the United States
Journal article by Nell Irvin Painter; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Black-white relations--Analysis, Black-white relations--Social aspects, Racial attitudes--Evaluation, Stereotype (Psychology)--Analysis, Stereotype (Psychology)--Social aspects, Stereotypes (Psychology)--Analysis, Stereotypes (Psychology)--Social aspects, United States history--Analysis, United States history--Social aspects
...French race-thinking he shared with his friend Tocqueville and that Tocqueville shared with his protege, Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau. (16) Beaumonts, Tocquevilles, and Gobineaus Teutonic ideology imagined their French aristocracy as descendants...
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Edward Said's "Orientalism" Revisited
Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 17, January 1999
Subjects: Imperialism--Study and teaching, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and culture--Study and teaching, Said, Edward W.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...genuine racists of the period--like Joseph Arthur Gobineau, whose Essay on the Inequality...imperialism is the example of the Comte de Volney, who wrote two travel books...speeches and essays by Lord Cromer, Arthur Balfour, and Lord Curzon that paid...


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Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
GOBINEAU, JOSEPH ARTHUR, COMTE DE zhozef artur koNt d gobeno , 1816 82, French diplomat and man of letters. The chief early French proponent of the theory...


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