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How seriously should we take the notion of absolute monarchy during the reign of Louis XIV? Was its excessiveness-reinforced by outlandish artworks and buildings-mere propaganda or satire? Not at all, argues Hall Bjørnstad in this meticulous work of political and cultural history. Bjørnstad revisits the world of seventeenth-century France and the team of ministers, secretaries, artists, and writers surrounding Louis XIV to uncover the logic at work at the heart of the image-making of the Sun King. Bjørnstad looks at some well-known artifacts-the monumental opulence of Versailles, for example, and Charles Le Brun's symbolic paintings depicting the grand exploits of the king, as well as at court histories and the king's secret Mémoires-to argue that these seeming absurdities are driven by a deeper, internal logic: a dream of absolute power that defies modern standards of political rationality. Bjørnstad cautions us not to approach categories such as "royal glory" and "royal exemplarity" anachronistically while also suggesting that they are part of a collective political imaginary that is still at work today.

Despotism --- Despotism. --- Literature. --- Monarchy --- Monarchy. --- Politics and government. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Power (Social sciences). --- History --- Louis --- Le Brun, Charles, --- In literature. --- Portraits. --- 1600-1715. --- France --- France. --- Politics and government --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Lodewijk --- le Roi-Soleil --- Louis le Grand --- de Zonnekoning

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En adoptant un point de vue resolument terrestre et le poussant jusqu'a ses ultimes consequences, Pascal expose dans les Pensees le point aveugle de la conscience seculaire de son epoque, et par la les racines cachees de la notre. Il s'agit ici d'etudier le discours moderne sur la creature sans createur qui s'inaugure ainsi. Explorer ce nouvel espace anthropologique, ou l'humain se constitue a l'exterieur de la theologie, mais sans dompter pour autant la soif humaine de l'absolu. Penser avec Pascal l'etre-creature de l'homme.

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"By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were no longer sufficient to gain an understanding of events. Inspired by recent developments in theory of history, the volume argues that the relevance of universal history resides in the laboratory of intense, diverse and mainly unsuccessful attempts at thinking history and universals together. They all shared the common aim of integrating all time and space: assemble the world and keep it together."--Provided by publisher.

Historiography. --- History --- Philosophy.