LEADER 05119nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910790102703321 005 20220308020517.0 010 $a0-8014-6437-4 010 $a0-8014-6390-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463907 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187217 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420988 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666445 035 $a(PQKB)11353765 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138303 035 $a(OCoLC)781378105 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28730 035 $a(DE-B1597)478648 035 $a(OCoLC)979740506 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138303 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539333 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681773 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187217 100 $a20110906d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Enlightenment in practice$b[electronic resource] $eacademic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794 /$fJeremy L. Caradonna 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource $cmap (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-50491-1 311 0 $a0-8014-5060-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Abbreviations and Translation --$tMap of France --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Rebirth of the Concours Académique: Cultural Politics and the Domestication of Letters in the Age of Louis XIV --$t2. À la Recherche du Concours Académique --$t3. The Participatory Enlightenment --$t4. Dijon Revisited: Rousseau's First Discourse from the Perspective of the Concours Académique --$t5. The Concours Académique, Political Culture, and the Critical Public Sphere --$t6. The Practical Enlightenment: The Concours Académique, the State, and the Pursuit of Expertise --$t7. Prize Contests in the Revolutionary Crucible: Decline and Regeneration --$tConclusion: The Enlightenment in Question --$tAppendixes --$tA. Academies and Societies in France That Held Public Prize Contests from the Fourteenth Century to 1794 --$tB. Female Laureates of the Concours Académique, 1671-1790 --$tC. Contests founded by the Abbé Raynal --$tD. Contests on Poverty, Begging, and Poor Relief --$tE. Contests Related to Urban Drinking Water --$tF. List of Prize Contests Offered by Academies, Scholarly Societies, and Agricultural Societies in Continental France from 1670 to 1794 (available at http://www.jeremycaradonna.com) --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aPublic 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. 606 $aLiterature$xCompetitions$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLiterature$xCompetitions$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterary prizes$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLiterary prizes$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y17th century 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aLiterature$xCompetitions$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature$xCompetitions$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary prizes$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary prizes$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a944.03 700 $aCaradonna$b Jeremy L.$f1979-$01477170 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790102703321 996 $aThe Enlightenment in practice$93697685 997 $aUNINA