The Enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : a genealogy / / Dan Edelstein

• Autore: Edelstein Dan
• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 944/.034
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment - France; Philosophy - France - History - 18th century; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of; Philosophy - Europe - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: France Intellectual life 18th century
• Soggetto non controllato: enlightenment, philosophy, science, art, literature, history, perspective, quarrel of the ancients and moderns, french academies, france, esprit philosophique, dutch republic, england, humanism, orient, revolution, resistance, politics, rights, liberty, freedom, radical, politeness, worldliness, public instruction, censorship, universities, nonfiction
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1720's scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms-such as l'esprit philosophique-to describe what we would today call
• Titolo autorizzato: The Enlightenment
• ISBN: 9780226184500; 1-283-05817-0; 9786613058171; 0-226-18450-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814015503321
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