03325nam 2200673 a 450 991080688590332120200520144314.01-107-11706-20-521-03096-X1-280-16201-50-511-11761-20-511-14951-40-511-30969-40-511-48580-80-511-05225-1(CKB)111004366731750(EBL)142411(OCoLC)47010003(SSID)ssj0000233101(PQKBManifestationID)11220094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233101(PQKBWorkID)10220246(PQKB)10320989(UkCbUP)CR9780511485800(MiAaPQ)EBC142411(Au-PeEL)EBL142411(CaPaEBR)ebr10001832(CaONFJC)MIL16201(EXLCZ)9911100436673175019980714d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading the French enlightenment system and subversion /Julie Candler Hayes1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (x, 243 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in French ;60Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-511-00292-0 0-521-65128-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-239) and index.Introduction: the critique of systematic reason -- 'Système': origins and itineraries -- The epistolary machine -- Physics and figuration in Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique -- Condillac and the identity of the other -- Diderot: changing the system -- Conclusion: Labyrinths of Enlightenment.In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyses the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Châtelet, the Abbé de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical and ultimately liberating. Hayes examines the tensions between freedom and constraint, abstraction and materialism, linear and synoptic order, that pervade not only philosophic and scientific discourse, but also epistolary writing, fiction and criticism. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of theorists from Adorno, Habermas and Foucault to Deleuze and Derrida, she offers a dialogue between the eighteenth century and our own, an ongoing exploration of the question, 'what is Enlightenment?'.Cambridge studies in French ;60.EnlightenmentFranceFranceIntellectual life18th centuryEnlightenment194Hayes Julie Candler1955-1650448MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806885903321Reading the French enlightenment4121558UNINA