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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?'.

Enlightenment --- France --- Intellectual life --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Enlightenment - France. --- France - Intellectual life - 18th century.

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France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Causes. --- Politics and culture - France - History - 18th century. --- Enlightenment - France. --- Violence - France - History - 18th century.

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Un éclairage sur la manière dont Rousseau fait de la philosophie, autour des notions de dispositions, de sensibilité, de relations sous lesquelles il pense le devenir humain de la nature. ©Electre 2015

Enlightenment. --- Siècle des lumières --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- critique et interprétation --- Siècle des lumières --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy --- Philosophie. --- Enlightenment - France --- Philosophy - 18th century --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, - 1712-1778

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French literature --- Philosophy, French --- Enlightenment --- History and criticism. --- French literature - 18th century - History and criticism. --- Philosophy, French - 18th century. --- Enlightenment - France.

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Enlightenment --- Cosmopolitanism --- Philosophy, French --- Difference (Philosophy) --- Political science --- Siècle des lumières --- Philosophie française --- Différence (Philosophie) --- Science politique --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Enlightenment - France