Ward supposes--that it has advanced, in more senses than one, beyond the point raised by
Renan's Vie de Jesus.
Now Nietzsche disagreed entirely with
Renan's view, that Christ was "le grand maitre en ironie"; in Aphorism 31 of "The Antichrist", he says that he (Nietzsche) always purged his picture of the Humble Nazarene of all those bitter and spiteful outbursts which, in view of the struggle the first Christians went through, may very well have been added to the original character by Apologists and Sectarians who, at that time, could ill afford to consider nice psychological points, seeing that what they needed, above all, was a wrangling and abusive deity.
Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall,' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world.
Marcus Aurelius was the perfect man, says Renan. Yes; the great emperor was a perfect man.
She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms of that literature, but a volume of Sainte-Beuve, of
Renan or at the most, in the way of dissipation, of Alfred de Musset.
Renan Bouroullec aluminum chair, $2,323, Cappellini, NewYork, 212-966-0669, cappellini.
Renan Hedouville, head of the Haitian Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, said "The living conditions in those prisons are in total violation of the principles of human rights."
Renan Duprez and Emmanuelle Boulanger are financially supported by la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer and l'Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS), respectively.
It is not surprising, then, that she would have read one of her age's most highly esteemed historians and philosophers, Ernest
Renan (1823-92), especially since she shared with him a standpoint of rationalism and religious skepticism, a sense of irony and the ironic play of ideas, a "view of life as an amusing ideological spectacle" (Chadbourne 104), a high regard for French criticism, (2) and an esteem for France as the epitome of civilization and culture, able to weather any series of disasters.