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Dissociations
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gourmont, Remy de, 1858-1915
- Language:
- French
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "Dissociations" by Remy de Gourmont is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. The work presents a series of reflections on various topics, analyzing the complexity of human thought and emotion through a critical lens. Gourmont engages with themes such as art, morality, religion, jealousy, and the nature of happiness, encouraging readers to reconsider commonly accepted notions in society. The opening of "Dissociations" introduces the author's methodical approach to exploring the separation of ideas and sentiments that often remain tangled in public thought. Gourmont voices his observations on how people persist in uniting opposing ideas, such as the intertwining of art and morality. He expresses a sense of frustration at humanity's failure to disentangle these concepts, positing that his lifelong dissociation work might be in vain, as society continues to cling to the confusion. This sets the stage for a thought-provoking examination of societal norms and the dynamics of individual perception throughout the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- Sur la Religion
- La Jalousie
- L'Astrologie
- L'Age
- Le Bonheur
- Un Centenaire
- La Naïveté
- Le Baiser
- Le bel Animal
- L'Animal fou
- Le Chien qui parle
- Tu et Toi
- Le Menu
- Les Bossus
- Le petit Verre
- Le courant d'Air
- Le poison de l'Or
- Un Assassinat
- Témoignages
- Voleurs et Volés
- L'Indocile
- Le Collier
- La Houille
- La Barbe
- Le Milliardaire
- Mlle Villany
- Diplômées
- Tribunaux
- Suicide
- Combats
- Le Progrès
- Un Aphorisme
- Renaissance
- L'Homme tertiaire
- Noms d'Églises
- En Chine
- Des Miracles
- Croyances
- La Tromperie
- Le Merveilleux
- Le Temps qu'il fait
- L'Été
- Le secret des Lettres
- Les Jeux
- Les Écoles
- Le Bourgmestre
- Inaugurations
- Les sept Merveilles
- L'Homme qui sort
- La «Marseillaise»
- En Vitesse!
- Repos Hebdomadaire
- L'Abolitionnisme
- Les Favorisés
- Raisonnements
- Les Forêts
- Circulation
- Fonctionnaires
- Panama
- Querelles d'États
- Le Système métrique
- Sur le Jury
- Les conquêtes de la Censure
- Le Mariage
- Célibataires
- Les Exploitées
- Procès d'Animaux
- Les Moineaux
- Nationalisme
- Administrations
- Statistique
- Mystères de la statistique
- Municipes
- La beauté de Paris
- Paris futur
- Le vieux Paris
- Cimetières
- L'automne
- Vision d'été
- La fête du muguet
- Plaisirs forains
- Dévastations
- La vie d'une ville
- Le vandalisme
- Le buste
- Architectes.
- Credits:
- Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
- Notes:
- Reading ease score: 68.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
- Release date is 2021-05-26
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