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Record Nr.

UNINA9911022351803321

Autore

Deijl Lucas van der

Titolo

Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-077572-1

1-04-078705-3

1-003-70858-7

90-485-6376-3

9781003708582

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Collana

Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands Series

Classificazione

LAN009010LIT024020PHI032000

Disciplina

199/.492

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative

LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Reforming the language of philosophy -- 2 The Hobbesian Turn -- 3 Enlightened vocabularies -- Part II Translating the New Philosophy -- 4 The search for linguistic transparency -- 5 The politics of linguistic purism -- 6 The rhetoric of translation -- 7 The eclecticism of the marketplace -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A. The Translation Corpus -- Appendix B. The Test Corpus -- Index of persons

Sommario/riassunto

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720).In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory.