The Enlightenment
Edelstein, Dan.
The Enlightenment a genealogy / [electronic resource] : Dan Edelstein. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 209 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
Interpreting the Enlightenment: on methods -- A map of the Enlightenment: whither France? -- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? -- Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii -- Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters -- Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction -- Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical -- From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history? -- France and the European Enlightenment -- Modern myths.
What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of “the Enlightenment” first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of termssuch as lesprit philosophiqueto describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But Edelstein argues that it was within the French Academies, and in the context of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, that the key definition, concepts, and historical narratives of the Enlightenment were crafted. A necessary corrective to many of our contemporary ideas about the Enlightenment. Edelsteins book turns conventional thinking about the period on its head. Concise, clear, and contrarian. The Enlightenment will be welcomed by all teachers and students of the period.
9780226184500 (electronic bk.) 0226184501 (electronic bk.)
Enlightenment--France.
Philosophy--History--France--18th century.
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
Philosophy--History--Europe--18th century.
France--Intellectual life--18th century.
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944/.034
The Enlightenment a genealogy / [electronic resource] : Dan Edelstein. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 209 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
Interpreting the Enlightenment: on methods -- A map of the Enlightenment: whither France? -- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? -- Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii -- Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters -- Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction -- Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical -- From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history? -- France and the European Enlightenment -- Modern myths.
What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of “the Enlightenment” first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms
9780226184500 (electronic bk.) 0226184501 (electronic bk.)
Enlightenment--France.
Philosophy--History--France--18th century.
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
Philosophy--History--Europe--18th century.
France--Intellectual life--18th century.
B 802 / .E34 2010eb
944/.034