The Enlightenment and L'Esprit Créateur
Author : Ira Owen Wade
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
ISBN :
The Late Enlightenment
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN :
Book Description
The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 1
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 140087162X
Book Description
The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit modern. In the first volume he traces the transformation they brought about in religion, ethics, aesthetics, science, politics, economics, and self-knowledge. His analysis of works by Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau—including the Encyclopedic—defines their organic unity and clarifies contradictions that appear to threaten the coherence, consistency, and logical continuity of the esprit philosophique. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
Author : Daniel Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316194329
Book Description
The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. Each essay presents a concise view of an important aspect of the French Enlightenment, discussing its defining characteristics, internal dynamics and historical transformations. The Companion discusses the most influential reinterpretations of the Enlightenment that have taken place during the last two decades, reinterpretations that both reflect and have contributed to important re-evaluations of received ideas about the Enlightenment and the early modern period more generally.
L'Esprit Créateur
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : French literature
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The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400871638
Book Description
The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit moderne. The second volume probes the writings of Morelly, Helvetius, Holbach, Mably, and Condorcet as they reveal the transformation of the esprit philosophique into the esprit revolutionnaire. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Enlightenment
Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226184498
Book Description
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 French esprit philosophique in the Euroean Enlightenment, this book will be of considerable importance for every scholar and student interested in this period.
The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment: Esprit philosophique
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit modern. In the first volume he traces the transformation they brought about in religion, ethics, aesthetics, science, politics, economics, and self-knowledge. His analysis of works by Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau--including the Encyclopedic--defines their organic unity and clarifies contradictions that appear to threaten the coherence, consistency, and logical continuity of the esprit philosophique. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The French Enlightenment
Author : J. H. Brumfitt
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
There are three significant questions which may be asked about the Enlightenment, as about any similar phenomenon: what? whence? and whither? This is a short general survey of this important movement in the history of ideas, which would combine some account of the historical and social background with a closer look at the thought of the more outstanding individuals.
The Enlightenment
Author : Norman Hampson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141937130
Book Description
Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated. In the works of Rousseau, Kant and Goethe, there was discernible a new inner voice, and an awareness of individual uniqueness which had eluded their more self-confident predecessors. The stage was set for the revolutionary crisis and the rise of Romanticism. In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant. On such vexed issues as the role of ideas in the "rise of the middle class" he provides a new and realistic approach linking intellectual and social history.
