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"Famous for his works on political economy as well as for his diplomatic activity, Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) embodies a singular type of 'philosopher', attributing and denying himself this designation according to the context. Although he refused to construct an ordered system of ideas, Galiani produced a philosophical knowledge that accompanied and enriched his political projects. Situated at the crossroads of history, literature and philosophy, this monograph studies Galiani's career by measuring the social and political purpose of his philosophical-literary production, and by establishing his identity as a 'philosopher' between Naples and Paris. What influences did these two socio-cultural milieus have on his thought and his career? This question constitutes the core of an analysis that aims to simultaneously reconsider the Neapolitan and Parisian contexts, where the terms 'philosophe' and 'filosofo' take on different meanings, practices and uses. In the light of the discourses, practices and representations that this author constructed throughout his life, this book places Galiani in the real dimension of philosophical work, studying his way of life as a philosopher, where philosophical battles, editorial successes and fame coexist without conflict with material worries, fears about his reputation or even failures."--Publisher's web page for eBook version.
Enlightenment --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy, Italian --- Philosophy, French --- Verité --- Filosofo --- Italian enlightenment --- Philosophe --- enlightenment --- Lumières --- ferdinando galiani --- Galiani, Ferdinando, --- Verité --- Filosofo --- Italian enlightenment --- Philosophe --- enlightenment --- Lumières --- ferdinando galiani
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With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer. From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic "paper empires" that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century --- Literary Criticism / European / German --- Literary Criticism / European / French --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Diderot. --- Italian enlightenment. --- book history. --- encyclopedic compilations. --- geography of the book. --- iberoamerican enlightenment. --- long eighteenth century. --- translated encyclopedias. --- transnational enlightenment.
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A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers.Margaret Jacob, one of our most esteemed historians of the Enlightenment, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqué book. The secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of blind economic forces.A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.
Secularism --- Enlightenment. --- History --- Americas. --- Celestino Galiani. --- Christian theology. --- Christian time. --- Christianity. --- Edinburgh. --- French Enlightenment. --- German Enlightenment. --- German universities. --- Inquisition. --- Italian Enlightenment. --- Italian intellectual circles. --- Leibniz. --- Locke. --- Milan. --- Naples. --- Napoleon. --- Newtonian optics. --- Romantics. --- Rousseau. --- Scotland. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Secular Enlightenment. --- Voltaire. --- Westphalia. --- absolutism. --- anti-Catholic. --- anticlerical. --- atheism. --- calendar. --- censorship. --- clocks. --- commerce. --- educated elite. --- educated people. --- eighteenth-century philosophes. --- enlightened attitudes. --- enlightened ideas. --- enlightened people. --- enlightened thinking. --- expansion. --- human time. --- intellectuals. --- materialism. --- modern time. --- new science. --- organized religion. --- philosophes. --- pocket watches. --- political instability. --- political structures. --- pornography. --- presbyterian clergy. --- religion. --- religiosity. --- religious authority. --- religious questions. --- religious warfare. --- revolution. --- revolutionary ideals. --- revolutions. --- secular Enlightenment. --- secular democracy. --- secular lives. --- secular order. --- secular outlook. --- secular world. --- secular. --- secularity. --- secularization. --- spatial reality. --- terrestrial space. --- time. --- university professors. --- urban elite.
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At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.
Women --- Education --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- Italy --- Italia --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliyā --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Ιταλία --- Итальянская Республика --- Италианска република --- Италия --- Италия Республикаси --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Італія --- Італійська Республіка --- איטאליע --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- إيطاليا --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- イタリア --- イタリア共和国 --- 意大利 --- 意大利共和国 --- 이탈리아 --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- Sardinia (Italy) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Italian literature --- Medaglia Faini, Diamante --- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana --- Barbapiccola, Giuseppa Eleonora --- Savini Rossi, Aretafila --- anno 1700-1799 --- knowledge, education, italy, women, gender, italian enlightenment, aretafila savini de rossi, diamante medaglia faini, giuseppa eleonora barbapiccola, maria gaetana agnesi, equality, feminism, nonfiction, history, virtue, career, capacity, intelligence, sexuality, chastity, poetry, philosophy, marriage, masculinity, femininity, domesticity, learning, family, descartes. --- Feminism --- Intellectuals --- Enlightenment --- Book
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