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In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was-and why it is still relevant today. Ferrone explains why the Enlightenment was a profound and wide-ranging cultural revolution that reshaped Western identity, reformed politics through the invention of human rights, and redefined knowledge by creating a critical culture. These new ways of thinking gave birth to new values that spread throughout society and changed how everyday life was lived and understood. Featuring an illuminating afterword describing how his argument challenges the work of Anglophone interpreters including Jonathan Israel, The Enlightenment provides a fascinating reevaluation of the true nature and legacy of one of the most important and contested periods in Western history.The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS-Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.
Enlightenment --- Enlightenment. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Historiography. --- Siècle des Lumières. --- Siècle des Lumières --- Historiographie.
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A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary, patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer?s book strips away our modern inventions of the American national past, exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more recent times.
Enlightenment --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Siècle des lumières --- Enlightenment--United States.
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Enlightenment --- Philosophy, German. --- Siècle des Lumières --- Philosophie allemande. --- Germany
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Enlightenment --- Siècle des Lumières --- Caffè (1764-1766) --- Italy --- Italie --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Siècle des Lumières --- Caffè (1764-1766)
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"For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understanding of eighteenth-century conceptions of nature. Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world that responds to Reill's work. The ten essays included in the collection analyse the place of historicism, vitalism, and esotericism in the eighteenth century--three strands of thought rarely connected, but all of which are central to Reill's innovative work. Working across national and regional boundaries, they engage not only French and English but also Italian, Swiss, and German writers."--
Vitalism. --- Science --- Enlightenment. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- History --- Philosophy --- Vitalisme --- Sciences --- Siècle des lumières --- Histoire --- 1700-1799
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L’Éveil des Muses : le titre du volume de mélanges offert au professeur Édouard Guitton et qui paraît dans la collection « Interférences » des Presses universitaires de Rennes indique clairement qu’il y est question de poésie – et pour l’essentiel, compte tenu de l’époque à laquelle le destinataire a consacré ses recherches, de la poésie des Lumières. Une bonne trentaine de contributions réunissent les plus grands noms du temps : Voltaire, Chénier, Roucher, Parny, Delille… non sans regarder à l’occasion en amont et en aval. Elles laissent aussi place à des écrivains moins attendus (Laclos en versificateur, Rousseau et sa « poésie du cœur »), et à nombre de minores, jusqu’à cet abbé Beuf inconnu du catalogue de la BnF. Car le XVIIIe siècle fut un siècle de poètes, il n’y a pas si longtemps qu’on en est assuré, tout particulièrement grâce aux travaux d’Édouard Guitton. Comme le donnent à comprendre les titres des trois sections du volume, « Figures », « Poétiques », « Enjeux », plusieurs approches et méthodes ont été employées, de l’analyse très attentive des textes, aux études théoriques et à l’histoire littéraire. Elles interviennent ici, non en compétition, mais dans une féconde complémentarité : livre d’amis pour un ami, cet Éveil des Muses est un livre savant, qui enrichira aussi bien notre connaissance du XVIIIe siècle que celle du genre auquel il est consacré.
French poetry --- Enlightenment. --- Poésie française --- Siècle des lumières --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie française --- Siècle des lumières --- Poetry --- poésie --- France --- XVIIIème siècle --- histoire
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The idea of the Enlightenment has become a touchstone for emotive and often contradictory articulations of contemporary western values. Enlightenment Shadows is a study of the place of Enlightenment thought in intellectual history and of its continued relevance. Genevieve Lloyd focuses especially on what is distinctive in ideas of intellectual character offered by key Enlightenment thinkers-on their attitudes to belief and scepticism; on their optimism about the future; and on the uncertainties and instabilities which nonetheless often lurk beneath their use of imagery of light. The book is organized around interconnected close readings of a range of texts: Montesquieu's Persian Letters; Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary; Hume's essay The Sceptic; Adam Smith's treatment of sympathy and imagination in Theory of Moral Sentiments; d'Alembert's Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia-together with Diderot's entry on Encyclopedia; Diderot's Rameau's Nephew; and Kant's essay Perpetual Peace. Throughout, the readings highlight ways in which Enlightenment thinkers enacted in their writing-and reflected on-the interplay of intellect, imagination, and emotion. Recurring themes include: the nature of judgement-its relations with imagination and with ideals of objectivity; issues of truth and relativism; the ethical significance of imagining one's self into the situations of others; cosmopolitanism; tolerance; and the idea of the secular.
History of philosophy --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Western Europe --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy, Modern --- Objectivity --- Enlightenment. --- Siècle des lumières --- Philosophie --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Rationalism --- 1700 - 1799
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With reference to gender preference, racial and social profiling, immigration policies, and the adjudication of borderland cultures and hybrid identities, this collection offers an in-depth examination of Enlightenment society and its parallels in the contemporary world."--Pub. desc. Featuring an internationally renowned group of contributors, this volume looks at the concept of tolerance at the point where the individual, or group, converges or clashes with the state. Though it appears to provide grist for the mill of Enlightenment critics such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre by confronting specific cases in which individual freedoms are forced to acquiesce to state control and authority in the guise of tolerance, the essays also offer a cautionary tale of critical restraint in the post-9/11 world. By reflecting on similar discrepancies in the interplay of discourses of tolerance and intolerance that inform our own lives, we recognize attempts to craft and apply theories and practices of toleration. "The idea of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, there is a surprising lack of scholarly works that attempt to analyse the influence of tolerance on the individual during this period. This collection assesses, for the first time, the positive and negative impact of discourses and theories of tolerance upon the lives of individuals in eighteenth-century Europe.
Toleration --- Enlightenment. --- Toleration. --- Discrimination --- Tolérance --- Siècle des lumières --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Bias --- Interpersonal relations --- Minorities --- Bigotry --- Intolerance --- Tolerance --- Virtues --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism
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On sait la nature ambivalente des Lumières, maniant la « raison » comme une arme à double tranchant pour défendre la liberté tout en légitimant le colonialisme, l’hégémonie, les idées de race et on connaît l’ardeur des débats qu’elles ont suscités d’hier à aujourd’hui. Peut-on parler de « Lumières indiennes », comme on parle des revendications pour des Lumières radicales, botaniques, orientalistes, écossaises, françaises et catholiques ? Quel rôle a été assigné à l’Inde dans la construction de l’autorité suprême européenne des Lumières invoquée par les philosophes encyclopédistes sur l’univers ? C’est le projet de ce volume que de situer l’Inde dans le mouvement intellectuel des Lumières en tant que moment historique, mais aussi en tant que laboratoire de pratiques épistémologiques. Rendant hommage à l’historienne Sylvia Murr en élargissant son champ d’investigation, ce recueil favorise de nouvelles perspectives croisées dans l’interprétation du rôle des Lumières par rapport à l’Inde émanant de chercheurs portugais, italiens, français, anglais, américains, indiens du sous-continent ou de la diaspora qui conjuguent des disciplines telles que l’histoire, l’histoire des sciences, l’histoire de l’art, l’anthropologie et la philologie. Chez chacun d’entre eux, les sources indiennes ont stimulé le re-pensé des notions opératoires et émergentes telles que civilité, civilisation, race, sexe, religion, etc. Ainsi, à la variété des approches ici présentées correspondent à certains égards l’ampleur et la diversité des programmes proposés par les Lumières.
History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- India --- Enlightenment --- Intellectuals --- Siècle des lumières --- Intellectuels --- Inde --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- Western influences --- Vie intellectuelle --- Civilisation --- Influence occidentale --- Siècle des lumières --- Western influences. --- Intellectual life. --- orientalism --- philosophy --- colonialism --- 18th century --- despotism
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J.-J.-L. Graslin (1727-1790) est connu à Nantes pour être le créateur du quartier devenu le cœur de la Cité, autour de la place et du théâtre qui portent son nom. Mais la vie et l’œuvre de ce receveur général des Fermes du roi, négociant, manufacturier et aménageur, restent très méconnues, alors qu’il fut aussi un lettré et un économiste d’envergure opposé aux physiocrates. Il est ainsi représentatif de ces hommes des Lumières qui, en province comme à Paris, vont transformer la France au cours de la période précédant la Révolution. Cet ouvrage réunit les travaux de chercheurs des diverses disciplines concernées par les domaines d’intervention de Graslin : économistes, juristes, historiens de la pensée et des institutions, de l’architecture et de l’aménagement. Il présente, dans une biographie entièrement renouvelée, ce que fut sa formation, ainsi que les conditions de sa réussite sociale à travers une carrière dans la finance privée au service de l’état et fruit de ses initiatives industrielles et foncières, et enfin de ses investissements spéculatifs dans le développement urbain de Nantes, où sa collaboration avec l’architecte Crucy donne naissance à l’une des plus intéressantes réalisations de l’urbanisme pré-révolutionnaire. La première partie de l’ouvrage s’attache à l’économie politique de Graslin et à sa place dans les controverses théoriques de l’époque ; la seconde a trait au dessèchement des marais de Lavau dans l’estuaire de la Loire ; la troisième et la postface traitent de la construction du quartier Graslin et de sa place dans l’histoire de l’urbanisme et de l’architecture. En annexe, un texte de Graslin est republié ici pour la première fois depuis le xviiie siècle.
Economic schools --- Graslin, Jean-Joseph-Louis --- Economists --- Economics --- Enlightenment --- Economistes --- Economie politique --- Siècle des lumières --- Biography --- History. --- Biographie --- Histoire --- Graslin, Jean-Joseph-Louis, --- Nantes (France) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Siècle des lumières --- Graslin, --- biographie --- aménagement --- économiste --- histoire de France --- aménageur --- Siècle des Lumières --- Ancien Régime (XIX-XVIIIe)
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