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Nov 12, 2018 · Blanqui’s Eternity by the Stars is a must read for anyone who has been enthralled by Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, or Borges. Chouraqui’s perceptive and erudite introduction and notes clarify the logic of the argument, Blanqui’s reception by major thinkers, and the context of the essay’s composition in solitary confinement following the ...
May 2, 2023 · The texts by Blanqui in this archive have been translated from the original French for the M.I.A. by Andy Blunden and Mitch Abidor. The original French texts are to be found in L’archive Auguste Blanqui. The one exception is the “Warning to the People” which comes from Marx-Engels Collected Works.
At the Crossroads of History: Blanqui at the Castle of the Bull 0 Louis-Auguste Blanqui Eternity by the Stars 64 I. THE UNIVERSE -THE INFINITE 66 11. THE INDEFINITE 68 Ill. THE PRODIGIOUS DISTANCE OF THE STARS 69 IV. THE PHYSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE STARS 71 V. OBSERVATIONS ON LAPLACE ' S COSMOGONY -THE COMETS 78 VI. ORIGIN OF THE WORLDS 91
Blanqui was the great conspiratorial revolutionary of the nineteenth century. At the end of his life, he produced this strange, poetic, wondrous little book, which employs the science of the age to argue for the eternal repetition of the world.
It provides reproductions of all of Blanqui’s published and posthumously published works, transcripts of the main court proceedings undertaken against him, and scans of the full set of his manuscripts held by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, along with a detailed chronology and a bibliography.
Eternity By The Stars. In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the English Channel.
Discover Louis Auguste Blanqui famous and rare quotes. "Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought..."
