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"Explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century 'inquiries after happiness, ' an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of well-being in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative study asks us to see the novel itself as a key instrument of Enlightenment ethics. His central argument is that the novel form provided a uniquely valuable tool for thinking about the nature and challenges of modern happiness: whereas treatises sought to theorize the conditions that made happiness possible in general, eighteenth-century fiction excelled at interrogating the problem on the level of the particular, in the details of a single individual's psychology and unique circumstances."--Publisher description.

Fiction --- Happiness in literature. --- Enlightenment --- Enlightenment. --- Fiction. --- Litteratur --- Lycka i litteraturen --- Glädje i litteraturen. --- Lycka --- Upplysningen. --- History and criticism --- Historia. --- Teori, filosofi --- 1700-1799. --- 1700-talet. --- Europe. --- Europa.

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Focusing on 18th century Enlightenment writing, contributors explore the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific dimensions of the grey area that binds so-called 'illuminist' and 'rational' forms of thinking - the super-enlightenment.

Theory of knowledge --- anno 1700-1799 --- Enlightenment. --- Civilization, Modern --- Siècle des lumières --- Civilisation --- Enlightenment --- Siècle des lumières --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Aufklärung. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Idé- och lärdomshistoria --- Upplysningen. --- Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis). --- 1700-1799. --- Civilization, Modern - 18th century

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"Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today, however, its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge. Late eighteenth-century Germans, troubled by a massive increase in the publication and availability of printed material, felt threatened by a veritable "plague" of books that circulated "contagiously" among the reading public. But deep concerns about what counted as authoritative knowledge, not to mention the fear of information overload, also made them uneasy, as they watched universities come under increasing pressure to offer more practical training and to justify their existence in the age of print. German intellectuals were the first to settle on the research university, and its organizing system of intellectual specialization, as the solution to these related problems. Drawing on the history of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. Organizing Enlightenment reveals higher education's story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar"--

Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Research --- Enlightenment --- Universités --- Enseignement universitaire --- Enseignement supérieur --- Recherche --- Siècle des Lumières --- History --- Curricula --- Philosophy --- Histoire --- Programmes d'études --- Philosophie --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Science --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Information services --- Learning and scholarship --- Methodology --- Research teams --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Education --- EDUCATION / Higher. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- PHILOSOPHY / General. --- Education, Higher. --- Intellectual life. --- Research. --- Universities and colleges. --- Upplysningen. --- Universitet --- Högskolan --- Högskoleutbildning --- Forskning --- Germany. --- Philosophy. --- Curricula. --- Historia. --- 1700-1899. --- 1700-talet. --- Tyskland. --- Philosophy / general.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --- Diderot, Denis --- Philosophy, French --- Enlightenment --- Philosophie française --- Siècle des Lumières --- Diderot, Denis, --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Upplysningen --- analys och tolkning. --- Philosophie française --- Siècle des Lumières --- D..., --- Didero, Deni, --- Diderot, --- Diderot, Pantophile, --- Didro, Deni, --- D̲intero, D̲eni, --- דידרו, דני --- דידרו, דני, --- Rousseau, Jean Jacques --- Rouseau, Jan Jakub, --- Russo, Zhan Zhak, --- Rousseau, John James, --- Rūssū, Jān Jāk, --- Lu-so, --- Ru-xô, Giăng-Giá̆c, --- Rousseau, Jean Jaques, --- Rousseau, Jean Jeacques, --- Rousseau, J. J. --- Rusō, Jan Jakku, --- Rousseau, Gian Giacomo, --- Ruso, Z'an Z'aḳ, --- Rūcō, --- Citoyen de Genève, --- Citizen of Geneva, --- Roussō, --- Rousseau, --- Rūssō, --- Rousseau, Johann Jacob, --- Руссо, Жан-Жак, --- רוסא, זשאן־זשאק --- רוסא, י׳ן י׳ק, --- רוסו, זאאן זאאק, --- רוסו, ז׳אן־ז׳אק, --- روسو، چان چاك --- روسو، ژان ژاك --- 卢梭, --- Rousseau, Juan Jacobo, --- Rousseau, G. G. --- Ruso, Jan Jak, --- Rūsaw, Zhān Zhāk, --- Rūsū, Zhān Zhāk, --- Didero, Deni --- Diderot --- Diderot, Pantophile --- Didro, Deni --- D̲intero, D̲eni --- Dīdiraw --- Dīdirū --- ‏ديدرو