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- Book Title
- The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
- ISBN
- 9780226184470
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Enlightenment : a Genealogy
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Modern / 18th Century, European / French, Europe / France, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Europe / General
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0.1 in
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- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms--such as l'esprit philosophique --to describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But Edelstein argues that it was within the French Academies, and in the context of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, that the key definition, concepts, and historical narratives of the Enlightenment were crafted. A necessary corrective to many of our contemporary ideas about the Enlightenment, Edelstein's book turns conventional thinking about the period on its head. Concise, clear, and contrarian, The Enlightenment will be welcomed by all teachers and students of the period.
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University of Chicago Press
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0226184471
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9780226184470
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Publication Name
Enlightenment : a Genealogy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 18th Century, European / French, Europe / France, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Europe / General
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections, Philosophy
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
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2010-007668
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B802.E34 2010
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"Dan Edelstein, one of the very best contemporary scholars of eighteenth-century French culture, has produced another tour-de-force of a book with this brilliant, provocative study of how, when, and where the Enlightenment was first defined."David A. Bell, Princeton University, "This study articulates a resolutely innovative argument for a narrative as opposed to a epistemological understanding of the Enlightenment. Edelstein's careful attention to how the Enlightenment itself imagined its origins and objectives clears away layers of obfuscating accretions. User-friendly and eminently well informed, this critical synthesis becomes a manifesto reorienting Enlightenment studies in new and provocative directions. Those who would understand what the Enlightenment was and is could not find a better guide."-Thomas M. Kavanagh, Yale University, "Edelstein provides both novice and expert readers with an accomplished work, recapitulating the encyclopedic ambitions of the philosophes, and giving peripheral attention to foreign reactions, such as the Scottish and Italian Enlightenments&.Highly recommended."- Choice, This study articulates a resolutely innovative argument for a narrative as opposed to a epistemological understanding of the Enlightenment. Edelstein's careful attention to how the Enlightenment itself imagined its origins and objectives clears away layers of obfuscating accretions. User-friendly and eminently well informed, this critical synthesis becomes a manifesto reorienting Enlightenment studies in new and provocative directions. Those who would understand what the Enlightenment was and is could not find a better guide., This book is few in pages, and its author is comparatively few in years. But it possesses more force than far weightier tomes and more learning and intelligence than most can muster in a career. Put simply, Dan Edelstein's The Enlightenment: A Genealogy is a daring and provocative work. . . . Unlike so many of Nietzsche and Foucault's world-be literary acolytes, Edelstein is deeply versed in the past. When coupled with his no less impressive erudition in literary studies, that deep historical and historiographical knowledge allows him to make a contribution of great importance. The Enlightenment Project, Edelstein contends, was first and foremost a 'story' that eighteenth-century men and women told about themselves. . . . Edelstein's book . . . should sit, in good company, on the shelves of all students, regardless of discipline, who are interested in the period., "Dan Edelstein's incisive book argues that before we define the Enlightenment as an historical period or debate it as a philosophical project we need to appreciate it as a story told by a set of self-conscious French moderns about the emergence of new social forms shaped by the methods and mentality of scientific reason. Reconstructing the chapters of this story in his own vivid style, Edelstein sets students on a sure path through the thicket of scholarly commentary while challenging specialists to re-examine their own understanding of this key episode in intellectual history."-Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles, Edelstein provides both novice and expert readers with an accomplished work, recapitulating the encyclopedic ambitions of the philosophes, and giving peripheral attention to foreign reactions, such as the Scottish and Italian Enlightenments....Highly recommended., Dan Edelstein's incisive book argues that before we define the Enlightenment as an historical period or debate it as a philosophical project we need to appreciate it as a story told by a set of self-conscious French moderns about the emergence of new social forms shaped by the methods and mentality of scientific reason. Reconstructing the chapters of this story in his own vivid style, Edelstein sets students on a sure path through the thicket of scholarly commentary while challenging specialists to re-examine their own understanding of this key episode in intellectual history., "This study articulates a resolutely innovative argument for a narrative as opposed to a epistemological understanding of the Enlightenment. Edelstein's careful attention to how the Enlightenment itself imagined its origins and objectives clears away layers of obfuscating accretions. User-friendly and eminently well informed, this critical synthesis becomes a manifesto reorienting Enlightenment studies in new and provocative directions. Those who would understand what the Enlightenment was and is could not find a better guide."Thomas M. Kavanagh, Yale University, "Dan Edelstein's incisive book argues that before we define the Enlightenment as an historical period or debate it as a philosophical project we need to appreciate it as a story told by a set of self-conscious French moderns about the emergence of new social forms shaped by the methods and mentality of scientific reason. Reconstructing the chapters of this story in his own vivid style, Edelstein sets students on a sure path through the thicket of scholarly commentary while challenging specialists to re-examine their own understanding of this key episode in intellectual history."Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles, Edelstein provides both novice and expert readers with an accomplished work, recapitulating the encyclopedic ambitions of the philosophes, and giving peripheral attention to foreign reactions, such as the Scottish and Italian Enlightenments….Highly recommended., This study articulates a resolutely innovative argument for a narrative as opposed to a epistemological understanding of the Enlightenment. Edelstein's careful attention to how the Enlightenment itself imagined its origins and objectives clears away layers of obfuscating accretions. User-friendly and eminently well informed, this critical synthesis becomes a manifesto reorienting Enlightenment studies in new and provocative directions. Those who would understand what the Enlightenment was and is could not find a better guide., "In this concise, bold, and innovative book, Dan Edelstein offers us an original account of the Enlightenment. It convincingly argues that the Enlightenment is above all a narrative about social and cultural changes and that its origins can be found in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Therefore, by reconsidering the importance of the Frenchesprit philosophiquein the European Enlightenment, this book will be of considerable importance for every scholar and student interested in this period."-Antoine Lilti, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Dan Edelstein, one of the very best contemporary scholars of eighteenth-century French culture, has produced another tour-de-force of a book with this brilliant, provocative study of how, when, and where the Enlightenment was first defined., "Dan Edelstein, one of the very best contemporary scholars of eighteenth-century French culture, has produced another tour-de-force of a book with this brilliant, provocative study of how, when, and where the Enlightenment was first defined."-David Bell, Princeton University, "Edelstein provides both novice and expert readers with an accomplished work, recapitulating the encyclopedic ambitions of the philosophes, and giving peripheral attention to foreign reactions, such as the Scottish and Italian Enlightenments….Highly recommended."- Choice
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Interpreting the Enlightenment: On Methods 2 A Map of the Enlightenment: Whither France? 3 The Spirit of the Moderns: From the New Science to the Enlightenment 4 Society, the Subject of the Modern Story 5 Quarrel in the Academy: The Ancients Strike Back 6 Humanism and Enlightenment: The Classical Style of the Philosophes 7 The Philosophical Spirit of the Laws: Politics and Antiquity 8 An Ancient God: Pagans and Philosophers 9 Post Tenebras Lux: Begriffsgeschichte or Régime d'Historicité ? 10 Ancients and the Orient: Translatio Imperii 11 Enlightened Institutions (I): The Royal Academies versus the Republic of Letters 12 Enlightened Institutions (II): Universities, Censorship, and Public Instruction 13 Worldliness, Politeness, and the Importance of Not Being Too Radical 14 From Enlightenment to Revolution: A Shared History? 15 France and the European Enlightenment 16 Conclusion: Modern Myths Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography for the Enlightenment Index
Copyright Date
2010
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
944/.034
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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