05119nam 2200721Ia 450 991079010270332120220308020517.00-8014-6437-40-8014-6390-410.7591/9780801463907(CKB)2670000000187217(SSID)ssj0000611803(PQKBManifestationID)11420988(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611803(PQKBWorkID)10666445(PQKB)11353765(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499957(MiAaPQ)EBC3138303(OCoLC)781378105(MdBmJHUP)muse28730(DE-B1597)478648(OCoLC)979740506(DE-B1597)9780801463907(Au-PeEL)EBL3138303(CaPaEBR)ebr10539333(CaONFJC)MIL681773(EXLCZ)99267000000018721720110906d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Enlightenment in practice[electronic resource] academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794 /Jeremy L. CaradonnaIthaca Cornell University Press20121 online resource map (black and white)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-50491-1 0-8014-5060-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Note on Abbreviations and Translation --Map of France --Introduction --1. The Rebirth of the Concours Académique: Cultural Politics and the Domestication of Letters in the Age of Louis XIV --2. À la Recherche du Concours Académique --3. The Participatory Enlightenment --4. Dijon Revisited: Rousseau's First Discourse from the Perspective of the Concours Académique --5. The Concours Académique, Political Culture, and the Critical Public Sphere --6. The Practical Enlightenment: The Concours Académique, the State, and the Pursuit of Expertise --7. Prize Contests in the Revolutionary Crucible: Decline and Regeneration --Conclusion: The Enlightenment in Question --Appendixes --A. Academies and Societies in France That Held Public Prize Contests from the Fourteenth Century to 1794 --B. Female Laureates of the Concours Académique, 1671-1790 --C. Contests founded by the Abbé Raynal --D. Contests on Poverty, Begging, and Poor Relief --E. Contests Related to Urban Drinking Water --F. List of Prize Contests Offered by Academies, Scholarly Societies, and Agricultural Societies in Continental France from 1670 to 1794 (available at http://www.jeremycaradonna.com) --Notes --Works Cited --IndexPublic academic prize contests-the concours académique-played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for scrutiny by panels of judges. In The Enlightenment in Practice, Jeremy L. Caradonna draws on archives both in Paris and the provinces to show that thousands of individuals-ranging from elite men and women of letters artisans, and peasants-participated in these intellectual competitions, a far broader range of people than has been previously assumed. Caradonna contends that the Enlightenment in France can no longer be seen as a cultural movement restricted to a small coterie of philosophers or a limited number of printed texts. Moreover, Caradonna demonstrates that the French monarchy took academic competitions quite seriously, sponsoring numerous contests on such practical matters as deforestation, the quality of drinking water, and the nighttime illumination of cities. In some cases, the contests served as an early mechanism for technology transfer: the state used submissions to identify technical experts to whom it could turn for advice. Finally, the author shows how this unique intellectual exercise declined during the upheavals of the French Revolution, when voicing moderate public criticism became a rather dangerous act.LiteratureCompetitionsFranceHistory17th centuryLiteratureCompetitionsFranceHistory18th centuryLiterary prizesFranceHistory17th centuryLiterary prizesFranceHistory18th centuryEnlightenmentFranceFranceIntellectual life17th centuryFranceIntellectual life18th centuryLiteratureCompetitionsHistoryLiteratureCompetitionsHistoryLiterary prizesHistoryLiterary prizesHistoryEnlightenment944.03Caradonna Jeremy L.1979-1477170MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790102703321The Enlightenment in practice3697685UNINA