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Author : Giles Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Essays in Memory of Robert Shackleton written by Giles Barber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107045002
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatic Enlightenment written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the political and moral thought of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these thinkers exemplify a particularly attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition.
Author : Graeme Garrard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487431
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment written by Graeme Garrard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's relationship to the Enlightenment has been eclipsed and seriously distorted by his association with the French Revolution, Graeme Garrard presents the first book-length case that shows Rousseau as the pivotal figure in the emergence of Counter-Enlightenment thought. Viewed in the context in which he actually lived and wrote—from the middle of the eighteenth century to his death in 1778—it is apparent that Rousseau categorically rejected the Enlightenment "republic of letters" in favor of his own "republic of virtue." The philosophes, placing faith in reason and natural human sociability and subjecting religion to systematic criticism and doubt, naively minimized the deep tensions and complexities of collective life and the power disintegrative forces posed to social order. Rousseau believed that the ever precarious social order could only be achieved artificially, by manufacturing "sentiments of sociability," reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests.
Author : Robert Wokler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842409
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies written by Robert Wokler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.
Author : Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005647
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought written by Anoush Fraser Terjanian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.
Author : Jocelyne Kolb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472105540
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Ambiguity of Taste written by Jocelyne Kolb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration into the role of food in the aesthetic revolution of Romanticism
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253031591
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Geographies of an Imperial Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.
Author : Daniel Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139447904
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson written by Daniel Carey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Carey examines afresh the fundamental debate within the Enlightenment about human diversity. Three central figures - Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson - questioned whether human nature was fragmented by diverse and incommensurable customs and beliefs or unified by shared moral and religious principles. Locke's critique of innate ideas initiated the argument, claiming that no consensus existed in the world about morality or God's existence. Testimony of human difference established this point. His position was disputed by the third Earl of Shaftesbury who reinstated a Stoic account of mankind as inspired by common ethical convictions and an impulse toward the divine. Hutcheson attempted a difficult synthesis of these two opposing figures, respecting Locke's critique while articulating a moral sense that structured human nature. Daniel Carey concludes with an investigation of the relationship between these arguments and contemporary theories, and shows that current conflicting positions reflect long-standing differences that first emerged during the Enlightenment.
Author : J. Black
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287247
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book France and the Grand Tour written by J. Black and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study of the Grand Tour, Black relies on archival sources to provide an exploration of the real tourist experience rather than, as for the majority of studies of the Grand Tour, an account that is essentially based on travel literature. While sensitive to wider cultural dimensions, the author demonstrates his interest in the experience of tourists, particularly the circumstances they encountered, and the impact of the Grand Tour on British Society.
Author : Kristine Louise Haugen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061004
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Richard Bentley written by Kristine Louise Haugen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day—Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen’s highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and—in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable results. If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.
Author : Matthew D'Auria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107128099
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Shaping of French National Identity written by Matthew D'Auria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casts new light on of the 'official' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country's past.
Author : Lodovica Braida
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031038983
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing written by Lodovica Braida and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship, modesty, fear of personal criticism, or simple divertissement. In many cases, it was an ethical choice, especially for ecclesiastics. The Italian case provides a key perspective on the study of anonymity in the European context, contributing to the analysis of an overlooked topic in academic studies.
Author : Keegan Francis Callanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108788017
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu written by Keegan Francis Callanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montesquieu was among the most influential writers of the eighteenth century, and the study of his thought enriches and complicates our understanding of the Enlightenment. Following renewed interest in his writings over the last three decades, the Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu brings together the variety of disciplinary and interpretive approaches that have shaped the scholarship on his work and legacy. This Companion offers an integrated volume on Montesquieu as philosopher, novelist, historian, economic thinker, political scientist, and political theorist. It introduces readers to key themes and ongoing debates, reflects developments in the field, breaks fresh ground, indicates avenues for future research, and provides multiple perspectives on the relevance of Montesquieu's thought to contemporary problems in political theory.
Author : Margaret Geoga
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426248
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Allure of the Ancient written by Margaret Geoga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the ancient Middle East—including Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia— imagined and employed for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America, circa 1600–1800 ?
Author : Marcel Dorigny
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571814326
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Abolitions of Slavery written by Marcel Dorigny and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-slavery movement, which followed in the wake of the European slave trade, has attracted much less attention than the latter. This is particularly true for the abolition movement in the French colonies.
Author : Mary Helen McMurran
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442622253
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Mind, Body, Motion, Matter written by Mary Helen McMurran and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form.
Author : Carol Blum
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801874688
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Strength in Numbers written by Carol Blum and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used "natalism" as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Church in their pursuit of social change. In addition to the arguments over celibacy, divorce, and polygamy, other, more radical, proposals were put forward to free potentially fruitful male desire from the tedious ties of European matrimony. The question of whether sexual violence was a crime or rather an imperative of nature was passionately debated, as was the abolition of the incest taboo. Descriptions of exotic locales where uninhibited natives were alleged to copulate freely and procreate abundantly became a popular literary genre of erotic fantasy, made respectable by a framework of natalist discourse. The wish to reject the Church's moral guidance and return to the "laws of nature" led philosophers such as Diderot and Voltaire to question the institution of marriage itself. Centered on the eighteenth-century struggle to define moral authority, Strength in Numbers is the account of freethinkers' campaigns against the Church and monarchy; of the conflicts concerning the good and evil of "natural" sexuality; and of the ways in which natalism was used not only as a passive instrument in the wars of Enlightenment but as an active force shaping mentalities.
