Author: Pierre MalandainPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Delisle de Sales, philosophe de la nature
Author: Pierre MalandainDelisle de Sales, Philosophe de la Nature 1741 - 1816. 1. 2
Author: Pierre MalandainPublisher:
ISBN: 9780729402699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Delisle de Sales, philosophe de la nature
Author: Pierre MalandainDelisle de Sales, Philosophe de la Nature 1741 - 1816. 1. 2
Author: Pierre MalandainDelisle de Sales, philosophe de nature, 1741-1816
Author: Pierre MalandainDemocratic Enlightenment
Author: Jonathan IsraelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199668094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1083
Book Description
That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."
Diderot Studies
Author: Otis FellowsPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600039420
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe
Author: Mark CurranPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book examines the reception of the works of the Baron d'Holbach throughout Francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Thomas WynnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198895321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama: plays that were never performed within the playhouse. Drawing on queer theory, Wynn argues that eighteenth-century closet reading fostered disruptive pleasures that imparted another side to the period's 'théâtromanie'.