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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Enlightenment of Age Women Letters and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUsing vivid prose and a distinct sense of humour, Stewart deftly maneuvers between fictional and real portraits of older women while in the processs offering engaging analyses not only of the correspondences but also of novels such as Le paysan parvenu by Marivaux, Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos, and the letters exchanged by the latter and Riccoboni.- French ReviewThe result of long-lasting research efforts and meticulous close readings, Joan Hinde Stewart’s monograph is devoted to the exploration of the fate of aging and elderly women in eighteenth-century France, focusing on the section of society that should, according to the perception at the time, leave said society’s limelight once their prime begins its decline.- MLN‘[Stewart] pursues her argument with a lightness of touch that makes this book both enjoyable and instructive. Indeed, the title of the book and a number of the chapter titles - ‘Fifteen Minutes to Fifty’, ‘What Time Is It?’, ‘Word Salad’- reflect a witticism of style that is pleasing to find in an academic study of such breadth and depth.’- French StudiesTable of ContentsJoan DeJean, ForewordIntroduction1. A prescription for eternity2. Old fairies3. Menopause and morals4. Fifteen minutes to fifty5. What time is it?6. Romancing Marie7. Addressing her age8. Portrait of the artist as an old lady9. Generations10. Word saladConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor readers without modern Greek, this collection will serve as a necessary starting point for future studies of the life and thought of Adamantios Korais. The essays offer new insights into the different aspects of a many-sided scholarly and political career, and therefore to broader questions concerning the French Revolution and its Relationship to the Greek national movement.- Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsPaschalis M. Kitromilides, Itineraries in the world of the Enlightenment: Adamantios Korais from Smyrna via Montpellier to ParisI. A presence in classical scholarshipVivi Perraky, L’histoire britannique de Coray: une histoire de manuscrits (1789-1803)Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Enlightenment, emancipation, and national identity: Korais and the AncientsMichael Paschalis, The history and ideological background of Korais’ Iliad projectII. Reflections on language and literaturePeter Mackridge, Korais and the Greek language questionAnna Tabaki, Adamance Coray comme critique littéraire et philologueIII. The dialogue with contemporary ideasRoxane D. Argyropoulos, Adamance Coray et sa réflexion philosophique: vers une anthropologie médicale et culturellePaschalis M. Kitromilides, Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalismVassilis Mourdoukoutas, Korais and the idea of progress: from theory to actionSummariesBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Sex Education In EighteenthCentury France
Book SynopsisDid an Enlightenment era that dared to make sex an object of discourse also dare to make it an object of pedagogy?Sex education in eighteenth-century France brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to address these issues.Trade ReviewThis well-structured book has three sections, each examining contributions to sex education in a different domain. It guides readers through its topic like a pyramid, with a comprehensive foundation followed by an ever more narrow focus in subsequent sections.- French ReviewTable of ContentsShane Agin, Introduction: sex education in eighteenth-century FranceI. RegulationJean Bloch, Perdition, degeneration or legitimate pleasure? Eighteenth-century French education and the subject of sexAllan H. Pasco, Miss Manners and fooling around: conduct manuals and sexual mores in eighteenth-century FrancePaul Scott, Rites of wrong: confessors’ manuals and sins of the flesh in eighteenth-century FranceKathryn A. Hoffmann, Curing masturbation with a bath, a straitjacket or a wax museum: the strategies of Tissot, Bienville and Bertrand-RivalII. Reflection and evaluationJean M. Goulemot, Sex education in early modern utopian literature: an investigation into the marginsMatthew Lauzon, Dangerous educations and factitious puberties: the enlightening lessons of foreign loveShane Agin, The construction and education of the sexualised subject in RousseauCecilia Feilla, Correspondence school for lovers: epistolary exchange and sexual education in Restif de la Bretonne’s Le Nouvel AbeilardIII. Narratives of education, initiation and discoveryDidier Masseau, Representations of sexual awakening in eighteenth-century memoirsChris Roulston, Female education and sex education in Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereusesJean-Christophe Abramovici, The comedy of ignorance: scenes of sexual initiation in early modern pornographic literatureJuliette Cherbuliez, The science of seduction: libertinism’s privileged spheres of knowingJames Grantham Turner, Sexual awakening as radical Enlightenment: arousal and ontogeny in Buffon and La MettrieSummariesBibliographyIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 51B Writings of
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LOrient anglais connaissances et fictions au
Book SynopsisMais parmi ces représentations de l’Orient se confondent ouvrages érudits et fictifs, connaissance et imagination.Relisant un corpus de romans dits pseudo-orientaux à partir de leur intertexte savant, Claire Gallien met en évidence la déconstruction des frontières entre textes fictifs et non-fictifs.Trade Review[…] le livre de Gallien est ambitieux dans son aspiration à exhumer des liens mutuellement fécondants […] entre deux corpus immenses du XVIIIe siècle: les publications des orientalistes savants et les créations littéraires des auteurs pseudo-orientaux. Son argument cohérent convainc avec brio le lecteur a la fois de l’intégration réussie d’éléments d’orientalisme sérieux dans les inventions fictives inspirées de l’Orient d’abord, et ensuite de l’inclusion de ces œuvres imaginatives pseudo-orientales dans l’ensemble du patrimoine littéraire anglais.- Eighteenth-Century FictionC’est un ouvrage d’une indéniable richesse que celui de Claire Gallien. [elle a] donné de convaincants aperçus sur l’articulation des connaissances et des fictions.- CerclesTable of ContentsIntroductioni. L’Orient avant les Mille et une nuitsii. L’Orient des Lumièresiii. Orientalisme, historiographie et théorie1. La mode orientalei. Traduction des contes: les érudits français s’intéressent à la fable orientaleii. Diffusion des contes: un succès de librairieiii. Réception des contes: la pratique du double regard2. Typologie des orientalistesi. L’orientaliste universitaireii. Le voyageur orientalisteiii. L’historien des peuples orientauxiv. L’orientalisme ‘hors les murs’3. Pseudo-orientalisme et savoiri. Représentations tropologiquesii. Emprunts discretsiii. Emprunts manifestes4. La fabrique du savoiri. Déplacer les manuscritsii. Fragmenter et autoriser les écritsiii. Traduire les textes5. Littérature orientale et corpus littéraire anglaisi. L’invention d’un patrimoine littéraire en partageii. La création d’un Orient supplémentaireConclusionAnnexe 1: La bibliothèque orientale d’Edward GibbonAnnexe 2: Gravures de costumes pseudo-orientaux destinés au théâtreAnnexe 3: Tableau chronologique comparé des publications orientalistes, récits de voyage et ouvrages pseudo-orientaux anglaisBibliographieLectures complémentairesIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Dramatic Battles in EighteenthCentury France
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEighteenth-century specialists are well acquainted with the controversies surrounding the premieres of Charles Palissot's Les Philosophes and Voltaire's Le Caffé; ou, L'Écossaise at the Comédie-Française in 1760. […] Connors offers new perspectives on the conflict by delving deeply into the pamphlet literature and periodical reviews of the affair. For example, there is an insightful analysis of the short pamphlet Les Philosophes manqués by André-Charles Cailleau, written in the form of a play but never intended for the stage, which demonstrates how participants in the controversy appealed to both readers and spectators.[…] [T]his book is a welcome addition to recent interdisciplinary approaches to the interplay of public theatre and political culture in Old Regime and Revolutionary France.- French StudiesConnors’s rich description of the political and personal calculations involved in Voltaire’s decision to enter the fray convincingly buttresses the argument that these plays assume a new genre identity by being mobilized for publicity purposes that far exceed the boundaries of the stage.- Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern EraTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of illustrationsIntroduction: decision makers, doctes and theatre1. Culture wars: philosphes and anti-philosophes in eighteenth-century France2. The anatomy of a crime: polemics, pamphlets and preconditioning3. A critical performance: Les Philosophes hits the boards4. Parterre and balcony, spectator and reader: Palissot’s dramaturgical strategies5. Pamphlets on the stage: Voltaire’s riposte philosophique6. Spectators or readers? Voltaire’s ‘public’ concerns in L’Ecossaise7. The affair continues: critical uncertainty in eighteenth-century France8. (Re)Creating the event: performance criticism as intellectual war9. Following the event: new definitions of theatre and criticism10. Aftermath: theatre and polemics in pre-Revolutionary FranceConclusion: le cri publicBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Invaluable Trees Cultures of Nature 16601830
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe collection ˝focuses on the actual tree, apprehended in its full materiality˝ in lieu of the metaphorical or symbolic treatment of trees, which sets it apart from earlier works of criticism on trees in the eighteenth century.- ISLEThe plurality of the Enlightenment is a key organizing theme: the editors situate the volume within a growing literature that sees vitalism and sentiment in Enlightenment thought alongside detachment and classification.- Environmental historyTable of ContentsLaura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini, Introduction: invaluable treesI. Arboreal livesHamish Graham, ‘Alone in the forest’? Trees, charcoal and charcoal burners in eighteenth-century FranceJ. L. Caradonna, Conservationism avant la lettre,? Public essay competitions on forestry and deforestation in eighteenth-century FrancePaula Young Lee, Land, logs and liberty: the Revolutionary expansion of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle during the TerrorPeter Mcphee, ‘Cette anarchie dévastatrice’: the légende noire of the French RevolutionPaul Elliott, Erasmus Darwin’s treesGiulia Pacini, At home with their trees: arboreal beings in the eighteenth-century French imaginaryII. Strategic treesElizabeth Heckendorn Cook, The vocal stump: the politics of tree-felling in Swift’s ‘On cutting down the old thorn at Market Hill’Michael Guenther, Tapping nature’s bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvementMeredith Martin, Bourbon renewal at RambouilletSusan Taylor-Leduc, Assessing the value of fruit trees in the marquis de Fontanes’s poem Le VergerElizabeth Hyde, Arboreal negotiations, or William Livingston’s American perspective on the cultural politics of trees in the Atlantic worldLisa Ford, The ‘naturalisation’ of François André Michaux’s North American sylva: patriotism in early American natural historyIII. Arboreal enlightenmentsTom Williamson, The management of trees and woods in eighteenth-century EnglandSteven King, The healing treeNicolle Jordan, ‘I writ these lines on the body of the tree’: Jane Barker’s arboreal poeticsWaltraud Maierhofer, Goethe and forestryPaula R. Backscheider, Disputed value: women and the trees they lovedAaron S. Allen, ‘Fatto di Fiemme’: Stradivari’s violins and the musical trees of the PaneveggioSummariesBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser Iordre naturel 16801810
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Ce genre d’étude, à la croisée de l’histoire littéraire, de la philosophie et de l’histoire des sciences, est à encourager’.- Revue d’histoire des sciencesTable of ContentsNathalie Vuillemin, Présentation généraleAndreas Gipper, L’ordre de la nature dans la physico-théologie européenneAdrien Paschoud, Matérialisme, ordre naturel et imaginaire cosmologique dans L’Homme-plante (1748) de La MettrieCaroline Jacot Grapa, ‘Méfiez-vous de celui qui veut mettre de l’ordre’Vanessa de Senarclens, Le naufrage ou du désordre des émotions esthétiques dans le Salon de 1767 de DiderotClaire Jaquier, Finalités de la nature et poésie descriptiveAurélie Luther, Les discours sur les Alpes au XVIIIe siècle: un ordre géographique nouveau?Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, La fabrique du vivant: procréation artificielle et ordre social dans le roman de la fin du XVIIIe siècleGeneviève Goubier, L’épistémè in ordine de l’abbé SpallanzaniVirginie Pasche, L’ordre naturel selon Sade: la science comme fictionMarc J. Ratcliff, Ordre naturel, désordre culturel? Michel Adanson au laboratoire des motsAdrien Paschoud, ConclusionRésumésBibliographieIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Œuvres complètes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 57A Writings of
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Marivaux et la science du caract232re
Book SynopsisDans cet ouvrage Sarah Benharrech met en lumière les tours que le dramaturge donne à la notion de caractère dont il hérite des moralistes et naturalistes du Grand Siècle, et à partir de laquelle il développe une pensée morale de la transformation.Trade Review‘This is a detailed and carefully argued study of the writings of Marivaux-his journalism, novels and comedies-which sets out to show how, through formal, thematic, generic and conceptual innovation, he played a formative role at a decisive stage in the history of personal identity. […] [It] constitutes an impressively erudite and stimulating contribution to the literary and cultural history of the Enlightenment more broadly’.- French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionI Le caractère1. La science du moraliste2. La contrainte et la commodité3. La synecdoque briséeII Le sans caractère4. La fuite de soi-même5. L’ambivalence de l’amphibie6. La méthode du romanIII Transformations7. Les évolutions du caractère8. La leçon libertine9. Diderot mène l’enquêteConclusionBibliographie
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Lessing and the German Enlightenment
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor both students and scholars, this volume offers an informative and up-to-date overview of the most essential research topics in this area and poses questions that open up opportunities for further research and development.- Eighteenth-century studiesTable of ContentsRitchie Robertson, PrefaceNote on referencesH. B. Nisbet, Lessing’s achievementRomira Worvill, Lessing and the French EnlightenmentAlexander Košenina and Ritchie Robertson, Lessing as journalist and controversialistRichard E. Schade, Lessing’s poetryJohn T. Hamilton, Reception, gratitude and obligation: Lessing and the classical traditionJason Gaiger, The contemporaneity of Lessing’s aestheticsThomas Martinec, Lessing’s dramatic theoryFrancis Lamport, ‘Solcher Väter giebt es keinen mehr’: paternal authority in Lessing’s tragediesK. F. Hilliard, Lessing’s comediesJonathan M. Hess, Lessing and German–Jewish culture: a reappraisalAdam Sutcliffe, Lessing and tolerationDavid Hill, Enlightenment as a historical process: Ernst und Falk and Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts Christoph Bultmann, Lessing and the BibleKarl S. Guthke, Lessing and scienceA chronology of the life and major works of Gotthold Ephraim LessingSummariesList of contributorsBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation From Encyclop233die to Encyclop233die
Book SynopsisThe last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie méthodique was originally conceived as an innovative revision of the Encyclopédie and the Supplément.Trade ReviewReviews'This book represents an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship comparing Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie and its successor, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie methodique.'French studiesReviews'Doig has captured in this book the very spirit of Panckoucke’s massive encyclopedia […]. She demonstrates with perspicacity and depth not only how the great Méthodique was written, but more importantly, how it should be read and, in turn, understood.'SHARP News'Kathleen Hardesty Doig has produced the first monograph studying the Encyclopédie méthodique in its entirety. [...] applying qualitative and quantitative comparisons of content, [she] is more concerned with the Méthodique’s textuality than with its materiality.'The British journal for the history of science‘Doig has produced an imposing empirical study whose large amount of detail makes it an indispensable tool for future studies of the Encyclopédie méthodique’. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century‘This deeply researched work explores the construction of Panckoucke's innovative enterprise. It sheds new light on the emergence and development of the disciplines as well as their respective boundaries and interrelations. The breadth of Kathleen Doig’s scholarship is remarkable.’Robert J. Morrissey, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Mathematics and physics2. Medicine, anatomy and chemistry3. Agriculture and the natural sciences4. History and geography5. Theology, philosophy, grammar and literature6. Law and political economy7. The military arts8. The fine arts, architecture and music9. The mechanical arts10. Miscellaneous subjectsConclusionList of dictionaries of the Encyclopédie méthodiqueBibliographyIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Œuvres complètes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Liverpool University Press Rumor Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris
Book SynopsisIn this book Tabetha Ewing analyses different forms of everyday talk over the course of the War of Austrian Succession to explore how they led to new understandings of political identity.Royal policing and clandestine media shaped what Parisians knew and how they conceptualized events in a period of war.Trade ReviewReviews‘Ewing effectively communicates how public talk about the war ebbed and flowed […] she manages to navigate the complex terrain between police and public without confusing the reader.’French History‘Tabetha Leigh Ewing […] analyse avec une érudition exemplaire une série de sources qui échappent souvent aux chercheurs [pour en tirer] un vaste tableau de l’évolution de l’opinion publique parisienne à cette époque charnière. [L’ouvrage], par sa riche documentation, nous permet de voir les racines historiques d’une opinion publique qui fera une irruption spectaculaire à la fin du XVIIIè siècle lors de la Révolution française.'Studi Francesi‘An informative study that examines a period slightly earlier than most works on public opinion’ […] Sketches of colorful individuals, such as a shopkeeper’s wife who amused French officials by sending them detailed, unsolicited advice on foreign policy, make for compelling reading [...] A model of how to integrate popular opinion into works on foreign policy.’American History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Transcriptions: royal secrecy in the channels of ‘on-dits’2. Electing the emperor: problems of voiceAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 33. Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information4. Protesting the draft: popular opinion, chance, and royal justice5. Declaring love, declaring war6. A royal public: trumpeting the king’s triumph after Fontenoy7. Disloyal speech and war on other fronts8. Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public9. Gender as a poetics of indirection: a shopkeeper’s wife negotiates for peace10. Inchoate citizenshipBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Interpreting the Ancien R233gime
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Most brilliantly on display in Bien’s essays is the quality of his peculiar forte: namely that of seeing the problematical behind the apparently obvious and espying questions where people had earlier seen only answers’. Journal of modern history‘David Bien was without doubt one of the greatest historians of eighteenth-century France, and we are indebted to the editors for bringing some of his best work together in a single volume’. H-France ReviewTable of ContentsPreface, Keith Michael BakerIntroduction: David D. Bien and the paradoxical history of Old Regime France, Michael Christofferson1. The background of the Calas affair2. Catholic magistrates and protestant marriage in the French Enlightenment3. Aristocracy4. Manufacturing nobles: the chancelleries in France to 17895. Property in office under the ancien régime: the case of the stockbrokers6. Every shoemaker an officier: Terray as reformer7. Old Regime origins of democratic liberty8. The army in the French Enlightenment: reform, reaction and Revolution9. Military education in eighteenth-century France: technical and non-technical determinants10. The nobilities of Toulouse11. Interview with Norman CantorBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser lEurope Au XVIII Si232cle Commerce
Book SynopsisAprès avoir décrit la manière dont l’ordre européen a été conçu, les auteurs examinent la question de l’expansion commerciale et coloniale de l’Europe, ainsi que les théories de la civilisation, qui permettent d’interroger le statut de l’exceptionnalisme européen.Trade ReviewReviews ‘What then could be more timely, as the union arrives at its deepest crisis of identity, than historical and philosophical scrutiny of the idea of ‘Europe’ at the moment of its birth? [...] Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which both the hopes and the doubts that attach to the “European project” today were there from the very beginning’.Journal of Modern History‘Scopo (ben conseguito) del volume è quello di fornire solide basi interpretative, al di là di falsi miti e pregiudizi, relative all’idea d’Europa nel XVIII secolo, dale quali possa partire una più matura riflessione del concetto stesso nell’età contemporanea’.Studi francesiTable of ContentsListe d’abréviationsAntoine Lilti et Céline Spector, Introduction: l’Europe des Lumières, généalogie d’un conceptI. Un nouvel ordre européenBruno Bernardi, L’idée d’équilibre européen dans le jus gentium des modernes: esquisse d’histoire conceptuelleStella Ghervas, La paix par le droit, ciment de la civilisation en Europe? La perspective du Siècle des LumièresJennifer Pitts, Empire colonial et universalisme juridique au XVIIIe siècleII. L’Europe du doux commerce? Céline Spector, Civilisation et empire: la dialectique négative de l’Europe au siècle des LumièresKenta Ohji, La fin de l’Ancien Régime en Europe selon l’Histoire des deux IndesIII. La civilisation et ses critiquesAntoine Lilti, La civilisation est-elle européenne? Ecrire l’histoire de l’Europe au XVIIIe siècleLarry Wolff, La géographie philosophique des Lumières: l’Europe de l’Est et les Tartares de Sibérie au regard de la civilisationDominic Eggel, Le projet des Lumières mis en cause de l’intérieur: les classiques de Weimar à l’avant-garde des critiques de la civilisation européenneSophia Rosenfeld, Postface : L’Europe des cosmopolites: quand le XVIIIe siècle rencontre le XXIeRésumésBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Spanish Enlightenment Revisited
Book Synopsisthe transmission and reception of an Enlightenment discourse in the Spanish Empire;Spain’s role in shaping a modern conception of the natural sciences.The portrait of a demarginalised, modernising and enlightened Spain emerges clearly from this book;Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book and the windows it opens into recent and stimulating research […] are an example of the critical engagement of some of the best Spanish scholarship and international historiographical debate on the Enlightenment’.CROMOHS‘Un recueil riche en informations et suggestions, et dont il est malaisé de rendre compte avec justesse en quelques lignes’.Dix-huitième siècle‘Esta reseña no consigue revelar con justicia el valor de esta obra colectiva en cada uno de los campos abordados por diversos expertos de la Ilustración española […] y su importancia a la hora de reivindicar un merecido lugar para España tanto en la historia intelectual del siglo de las luces’.Cuadernos de Ilustración y RomanticismoTable of ContentsJesús Astigarraga, Introduction: admirer, rougir, imiter – Spain and the European EnlightenmentMaría Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, The merits of good gobierno: culture and politics in the Bourbon courtJoaquín Álvarez Barrientos, The Spanish Republic of Letters in its European context: images, economics, and the representation of the man of lettersJesús Astigarraga, Economic societies and the politicisation of the Spanish EnlightenmentJuan Pimentel, The Indians of Europe: the role of Spain’s Enlightenment in the making of a global scienceJavier Usoz, Political economy and the creation of the public sphere during the Spanish EnlightenmentIgnacio Fernández Sarasola, Constitution projects during the Spanish EnlightenmentGabriel Paquette, The reform of the Spanish empire in the age of EnlightenmentJesús Astigarraga, Niccolò Guasti and Juan Zabalza, The Spanish debate on public finance: a privileged laboratory for enlightened reformsJoaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, The image of the British system of government in Spain (1759-1814) Javier Fernández Sebastián, From the ‘voice of the people’ to the freedom of the press: the birth of public opinionAlejandro Agüero and Marta Lorente, Penal Enlightenment in Spain: from Beccaria’s reception to the first criminal codeSummariesBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Fabrique de la Modernit233 Scientifique
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Through its nine splendid contributions (which can be found summarised at the end, alongside a very useful thematic index), the book traces the way in which some key figures of the so-called Scientific Revolution- specifically those related to the anatomical and medical sciences- were transformed into icons of scientific progress. […] Along these lines, the book should not only be of interest to the historian of medicine or science, but also to the general historian, the philosopher of history, and to all those concerned with the practicalities required to give the living conditions of certain individuals the fictional characters of a universal history of glory. […] This is more than a book on eighteenth-century ideas of progress. By focusing on new sources, like obituaries and eulogies, the book also explores the coming into existence of a new historical narrative that goes far beyong the realm of science and medicine’. Medical HistoryTable of ContentsFrédéric Charbonneau, IntroductionHélène Cazes, Réédition et retour au progrès: les Œuvres d’André Vésale (Leyde, Boerhaave et Albinus, 1725), acte de naissance et de renaissance de l’anatomieClaire Crignon, William Harvey: nouveau Démocrite? Les récits de la découverte de la circulation sanguine au XVIIe siècleFrédéric Tinguely, Une épistémologie libertine de la découverte: la chance en progrès chez Cyrano de BergeracJosiane Boulad-Ayoub, La figure de Descartes au XVIIIe siècleJoël Castonguay-Bélanger, Une icône en procès: à propos de quelques résistances tardives à NewtonFrédéric Charbonneau, L’apothéose médicale, de Fontenelle à Vicq d’AzyrCatriona Seth, Esculape-Tronchin: le médecin à la modeSwann Paradis, Buffon et les descriptions animalières: réhabiliter une icône du progrès? Alexandre Wenger, Théophile de Bordeu (1722-1776): histoire et fiction du grand hommeRésumésBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LOrient 224 Vienne au DixHuiti232me Si232cle
Book SynopsisComment agit-il sur la transformation de la ville, de sa population et de son économie?David Do Paço analyse ici la place centrale qu’occupent les marchands et les diplomates ottomans dans la ville. Les oppositions entre la cour et la ville, le centre et les périphéries, les sujets naturels et les étrangers, se trouvent bouleversées.Trade ReviewReviews ‘L’ouvrage réussit son pari d’une approche plurielle, fine et nuancée de l’Orient à Vienne’.Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaineTable of ContentsIntroduction: là où disparaissent les diasporas1. Un enlèvement au sérail: contexte sociopolitique de l’orientalisme viennois2. Les trois clés de l’Orient: outils d’une gestion administrative3. Identités viennoises: ‘la patrie, la religion, la qualité et le véritable nom’4. Circulations et mobilités entre les empires: Vienne, périphérie ottomane intégrée5. Une intégration opportuniste: administrateurs, bourgeois et marchands 6. La sociabilité des petites douceurs: une élite transimpériale 7. La ville révélée: radiologie de l’intégration des hommes et des espaces urbainsConclusionAnnexe: La ville de Vienne vers 1770 BibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Berkeley Revisited moral social and political
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSébastien Charles, IntroductionHeta Aleksandra Gylling, Berkeley as a worldly philosopherArtem Besedin, Berkeley on the natural laws of societyDaniel E. Flage, Ethics in AlciphronStephen H. Daniel, Berkeley, Hobbes and the constitution of the selfRichard J. Van Iten, Berkeley’s pragmatic bent: its implications for his social philosophyMelissa Frankel, Actions, behaviours and volitions in Berkeley’s moral philosophyTimo Airaksinen, Vulgar thoughts: Berkeley on responsibility and freedomHugh Hunter, Berkeley on doing good and meaning wellMarta Szymańska-Lewoszewska, Berkeley’s double understanding of ‘social appetite’Scott Breuninger, Improving the health of the nation: Berkeley, virtue and IrelandSébastien Charles, De Pascal à Locke: la reprise berkeleyenne des enjeux philosophiques concernant la tolérance religieuse et civileMarc A. Hight, Berkeley on economic bubblesAdam Grzelinski, George Berkeley’s understanding of beauty and his polemic with ShaftesburyJérémy Girard, La bonne société d’après Berkeley: entre éducation religieuse et coutume raisonnableNancy Kendrick, Berkeley’s Bermuda project and The Ladies libraryPascal Taranto, Le travail de la sagesse: philosophie et exercice spirituel chez George Berkeley
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Liverpool University Press Enlightenment Spain and the Encyclop233die
Book SynopsisA critical edition of two 18th-century encyclopedia articles on Spain (one French, one Spanish) that caused much controversy at a time when Spain was asserting its role in the Enlightenment.Trade ReviewReviews ‘ce travail veut être une contribution à l’étude d’une ‘géographie des Lumières’' et du regard des nations éclairées sur les autres nations, aussi bien que des réponses de celles-ci à ces regards.’ Dix-huitième siècle‘[…] it offers both scholars and students emblematic sources of a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, as well as a more profound understanding of cultural and knowledge transfer in Enlightened Europe.’ Modern Language Review‘Pour la première fois […] grâce à cette compilation minutieuse de dix ans de travail, une vision réelle des écrits dans une relation triangulaire de la langue, des disciplines et des divisions entre l’Europe du Nord, l’Europe du Sud et la peninsula ibérique.’ Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie‘Thanks to [the editors’] efforts and their excellent translations, we now have access, in the same volume, to one of eighteenth-century Spain’s most fervent polemics. This work is a most welcome addition to eighteenth-century scholarship.’ DieciochoTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to the translations1. Clorinda Donato, Introduction. ‘Espagne’ or ‘España’? Answering Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia metódica, the Spanish translation of the Encyclopédie méthodique2. ‘Espagne’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers‘Spain’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López3. ‘España’, by Julián de Velasco‘Spain’, by Julián de Velasco. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López 4. Biographical notes5. Brittany Anderson-Cain, Locating encyclopedic knowledge in the global eighteenth century: a bibliographical essayBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Postal Culture in Europe 15001800
Book SynopsisExploration of the nature and history of the European post in the early modern period (roughly 1500-1800), its everyday reality and its culture.Trade ReviewReviews 'Jay Caplan’s book brings a unique and important contribution to a growing body of work on the culture of letter writing and cultural importance of European postal systems and networks.' Social History'Postal culture is a fascinating, highly readable, well-documented study, with a surprising reach, and a brisk pace that makes learning from it a real pleasure.' H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. A brief history of Western European postal services in theearly modern period2. Signed, sealed and delivered3. Surveillance and secrecy: the Black Cabinets4. Voltaire’s post: 1760-17705. Rousseau: vox clamantis 6. A postal worldBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Les Lumi232res Imaginaires Holbach et la
Book SynopsisAnalysis of the author-characters in translations of the works of the eighteenth-century Baron d'Holbach.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Holbach et la traduction1. Traduction et textualité collective2. Aux sources de la traduction holbachique3. Holbach traducteur des textes scientifiquesII. Traductions hétérodoxes4. Sources anglaises et personnages d’auteur5. Allonymes holbachiques et auteurs anglais6. Ethos anglais et présences sans nom7. Traduction et altéritéIII. Nom supposé, auteur et autorité8. Comment être auteur9. Se donner de l’autoritéConclusionsBibliographieIndex nominum
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Liverpool University Press Ancients and Moderns in Europe Comparative
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new intellectual history of the dispute, in which authors explore its manifestations across Europe in the arts and sciences, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.By paying close attention to local institutional contexts for the Querelle, contributors yield a complex picture of the larger debate.Trade ReviewReviews 'This volume makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on the Ancients and Moderns debate. In shifting attention away from the more polemical episodes of the dispute and moving beyond national perspectives, it sheds light on the long-term impacts of comparisons between antiquity and modernity on European intellectual life, particularly its impact on the development of disciplinary practices in various fields.' - Intellectual History Review'While the title of this volume at first appears to perpetuate the notion of a clearly identifiable conflict between two opposing intellectual groups, what is offered here is far more nuanced, a consequence of the research project from which it emanated. [...] Rather than treat intellectual history narrowly, this volume, rich in subject matter, looks more broadly.' Katherine A. East, Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsPaddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié, IntroductionPart I: Ancient knowledge and modern mediations1. Vittoria Feola, The Ancients with the Moderns: Oxford’s approaches to publishing ancient science2. Alexis Tadié, Ancients, Moderns and the language of criticism3. Stéphane Van Damme, Digging authority: archaeological controversies and the recognition of the metropolitan past in early eighteenth-century ParisPart II: Logic and criticism across borders4. Martine Pécharman, From Lockean logic to Cartesian(ised) logic: the case of Locke’s Essay and its contemporary controversial reception5. Marcus Walsh, Scholarly documentation in the Enlightenment: validation and interpretation6. Karen Collis, Reading the Ancients at the turn of the century: the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) Part III: Conversing with the Ancients: arts and practices7. Théodora Psychoyou, Ancients and Moderns, Italians and French: the seventeenth-century quarrel over music, its status and transformations8. Elisabeth Lavezzi, Painting and the tripartite model in Charles Perrault’s Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes9. Paddy Bullard, John Evelyn as modern architect and ancient gardener: ‘Lessons of perpetual practice’10. Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Ancient medicine, modern quackery: Bernard Mandeville and the rhetoric of healingPart IV: The persistence of the Quarrel11. Amedeo Quondam, Petrarch and the invention of synchrony12. Karin Kukkonen, Samuel Richardson among the Ancients and Moderns13. Ourida Mostefai, Finding ancient men in modern times: anachronism and the critique of modernity in Rousseau14. Ritchie Robertson, Ancients, Moderns and the future: the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to SchillerSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Les Spectacles Francophones 224 la Cour de Russie
Book SynopsisAnalysis of French theatrical productions in Russia, and how they influenced society in St Petersburg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. La compagnie française de ‘S.M.I. de toutes les Russies’2. Spectacles pour un nouvel empire: civiliser la Russie3. Les spectacles francophones parmi les autres spectacles à la cour4. La structure du répertoire francophone5. Le(s) public(s) face aux spectacles: les conditions matérielles et les conventions de la salle6. L’espace des spectacles de cour: architecture et hiérarchies sociales7. Les Ermitages de Catherine II8. De la cour à la ville: le théâtre francophone en dehors du palais impérialConclusionAppendice 1: Histoire de la Russie au dix-huitième siècle: chronologieAppendice 2: Liste alphabétique des œuvres représentées en français à Saint-Pétersbourg et autres lieux de résidence de la cour (1762-1796) Appendice 3: Liste alphabétique des comédiens français de la troupe impérialeBibliographieIndex
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Liverpool University Press Casanova Enlightenment Philosopher
Book SynopsisAnalysing Casanova’s œuvre from the perspective of moral philosophy, contributors show how several of his works – including his historical writings and satirical essays on human folly – contribute to the Enlightenment quest for a secular morality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordList of abbreviationsList of tablesIvo Cerman, Introduction: the philosophy of Giacomo CasanovaPart I: Casanova’s philosophy: an overview1. Ivo Cerman, Casanova’s observations on moral philosophy2. Federico Di Trocchio, The philosophy of the adventurer: Giacomo Casanova beyond libertinism and EnlightenmentPart II: National contexts3. Wolfgang Rother, Italian Enlightenment debates on religion and Church: Casanova’s philosophy and its background 4. Maciej Forycki, Casanova and his considerations on the partition of PolandPart III: Case studies5. Paolo L. Bernardini and Diego Lucci, Casanova on suicide6. Jean-Christophe Igalens, Casanova: writing the dream between philosophy and autobiography7. Gérard Lahouati, Voltaire, Casanova and the Dialogues chrétiens: an investigation8. Ivo Cerman, ‘Je viens pour vous convertir’: Casanova’s dialogues on philosophy and religionSummariesBibliographyIndex
£98.30
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Les D233go251ts de Voltaire exploration dune
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the theme of 'revoltion' that runs through Voltaire's writings.Trade ReviewReviews 'The theme of disgust has the potential to reveal much about a society and it is to be hoped that this traditional approach to Voltaire will offer some promising lines of inquiry for future researchers to follow.'Jennifer Tsien, H-FranceTable of ContentsAbréviationsAvant-proposIntroductionI Les dégoûts d’une vie sans dégoût de la vie1. La sphère publique: les dégoûts suscités par l’oppression politique et religieuse2. La sphère publique: dégoûts, dépits, défis d’un homme de lettres3. La sphère privée: les brèches de la vie affective4. D’une sphère à l’autre: du désenchantement prussien aux tracas et diversions de la vieillesseII Les dégoûts d’un auteur polymorphe5. Un penseur combatif6. Exigences et dégoûts du critique littéraire7. Les dégoûts d’un polémiste vindicatifConclusionBibliographieIndex des noms de personnes
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Maurists Unfinished Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisAn analysis of recently discovered 18th-century encyclopedia, its genesis and content.Trade Review'Meticulous and erudite study.'Jacob Soll, University of Chicago PressTable of Contents1. IntroductionReasons for studying an unfinished encyclopediaThe discovery of the manuscripts, and earlier research2. The Maurists’ manuscripts under the loupeThe history of the physical documentsDetermining the number of writers3. The history of a dictionary in the makingThe Congregation of Saint-Maur: organisation and eruditionDom Pernety revisitedThe dictionary project: picking up the trailThe first phase: translating Wolff’s lexicon (c.1743-1747) Competition with the embryonic Encyclopédie (1746) Turning point: interruption and transformation (c. 1747) The second phase: continuation and abandonment (c.1747-1754/1755) 4. The Maurists’ manuscripts comparedEstablishing limits: comparison to the Dictionnaire de TrévouxCreating clusters of knowledge: comparison to the EncyclopédieOther aspects of order: classification and cross-referencesIdentifying the Maurists’ sourcesMechanical arts and craftsNatural historyMedical artsMathematical sciences5. The Maurist enterprise and Enlightenment thoughtA monastic community in transformationResponding to the tastes of the timeThe middle ground that could have beenConclusion: ‘To change the way people think’Appendix 1: nomenclatureAppendix 2: working listsAppendix 3: illustrationsAppendix 4: fields of knowledgeAppendix 5: transcriptions and translationsBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation JeanJacques Rousseau face au public probl232mes
Book SynopsisExplores Enlightenment communication theory and the nature and limits of public philosophy through the works of Jean-Jacques RousseauTrade ReviewReviews'The author displays a thorough knowledge of Rousseau’s works (and correspondence) as well as an easy familiarity with recent scholarship and critical theory, and readers will find here a lively survey of current thinking on a crucial issue in Rousseau studies, written in a clear and often elegant style.' Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsRemerciementsListe des abréviationsIntroduction: Le franc-parler et l’idéal du petit nombreRousseau et la lettre morte1. La nature aime à se cacheri. L’éloquence entre fausse monnaie et don de la natureii. L’impropriété du nom propreiii. De la destination restreinte à l’écriture ‘sensitive’iv. Le cadavre du langage2. Les styles philosophiques de Rousseaui. Le Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité: l’ébauche d’une rhétorique philosophique ou le saut dans la fictionii. Acte manquéiii. Comment écrire pour le peuple: la Lettre à D’Alembert ou une nouvelle rhétorique populaireiv. Du patriarche au cosmopolite: la subjectivité politique à l’épreuve de la fictionv. Logiques de la répétition: voix, babillage et régressionInterlude: Silences de Rousseaui. Laconismesii. Silences malveillants: le murmure de Diderot3. Formes de viei. Philosophie écrite, philosophie vécueii. La double doctrine ou la ‘commode philosophie des heureux et des riches’iii. Incorporations et prosopographiesiv. Le je créateur4. Aléas et fortunes de l’envoii. Emotions publiques et animations de la rueii. Fortuna et Providenceiii. La chute libre ou l’envoi au gré du hasardiv. Thérèse, ou le degré zéro de la cultureConclusionBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Com233die de Moeurs Sous lAncien R233gime
Book SynopsisA study of the French comedy of manners in the eighteenth century, its genesis and its reception.Table of ContentsIntroduction: la comédie de mœurs, une notion omniprésente et mal définieI. Vers une définition de la comédie de mœurs1. Les Mœurs, ou les Façons du temps (1685) de Saint-Yon: la comédie de mœurs dans le miroir d’une pièce emblématique2. ‘Regard noir’ et jeu des mœursConclusions de la première partieII. Poétique de la comédie de mœurs3. La mise en place de la convention de lecture4. Les fils du ‘regard noir’5. La scène de mœurs6. La relativisation du ‘regard noir’Conclusions de la deuxième partieIII. Eléments pour une histoire de la comédie de mœurs7. Histoire de la comédie de mœurs: le dix-septième siècle8. La comédie de mœurs après 1720Conclusion généraleRéférences et compléments bibliographiquesIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser lAm233rique de lobservation 224
Book SynopsisAnalysis of literary and cultural commentaries on the Americas in French texts between 1650-1790Table of ContentsRemerciementsListe des illustrations et tableauxAbréviationsNathalie Vuillemin et Thomas Wien, Introduction. Entre observation et inscriptionI Vivre et inscrire le martyreAdrien Paschoud, Du récit à la gravure: les missions jésuites de la Nouvelle-France à la lumière du martyrologe de Matthias TannerMuriel Clair, Le Manuscrit de 1652 sur les martyrs jésuites canadiens: en deçà d’une perspective hagiographique et ethnologiqueII Traduire le territoireJean-François Palomino, De la difficulté de cartographier l’Amérique: Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin et son projet sur les limites de la Nouvelle-France (1688)Françoise Le Borgne, ‘Prendre langue’ auprès des Sauvages: les enjeux de la parole amérindienne dans l’œuvre du baron de Lahontan (1702-1703)Catherine Broué, Paroles diplomatiques autochtones en Nouvelle-France: un artefact polyphonique éloquentMarie Houllemare, Les archives du secrétariat d’Etat de la Marine, ‘âme de l’histoire’ de l’Amérique française au XVIIIe siècle?III Intégrer la nature américaineChristopher M. Parsons, Apprendre en apprivoisant: la domestication comme lieu de rencontre dans la France coloniale d’Amérique du NordThomas Wien, Guetter le rossignol: les voyages des ‘observations botanico-météorologiques’ entre la France, le Canada et l’Europe (1740-1775)Nathalie Vuillemin, D’une impossible inscription, ou l’institution du manque dans le Voyage à la Martinique de Thibault de Chanvalon (1763)RésumésBibliographieIndex des noms propres et des lieux
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 60D Collection des
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Pluto Press Civilizing Money
Book SynopsisAn engaging and unique study of Enlightenment philosopher David Hume's understanding of moneyand his role in the rise of capitalismTrade Review'Caffentzis has been the philosopher of the anticapitalist movement from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. A historian of our own times, he carries the political wisdom of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. Here is capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' -- Peter Linebaugh, author of 'The Magna Carta Manifesto' (University of California Press, 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Foreword An Autobiographical Preface Introduction: Who is a Philosopher of Money? PART I: HUME AND HIS CLASS'S PROBLEMATIC 1. On the Scottish Origins of Civilization 2. Civilizing the Highlands: Hume, Money and the Annexing Act 3. Hume’s Monetary Education in Bristol PART II: HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND HIS STRATEGY 4. Why was Hume a Metallist? 5. Did Hume read Berkeley’s The Querist? Notions and Conventions in their Philosophies of Money 6. Fiction or Counterfeit? Specie or Paper? 7. Wages and Money: Pegasus’ Mirror Conclusion: Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Philosophers of Money Coda: A Critique of Marx’s Thesis 11 on Feuerbach Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Religio Duplex
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of ''religio duplex'', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can distinguish the two faces of ancient religions more generally: the outer face (that of the official religion) and the inner face (encompassing the mysterious nature of religious experience). Assmann explains that the Early Modern period witnessed the birth of the idea of dual religion with, on the one hand, the religion of reason and, on the other, that of revelation. This concept gained new significance in the Enlightenment when the dual structure of religion was transposed onto the individual. This meant that man now owed his allegiance not only to his native religion, but also toTrade Review"With his characteristic erudition and lucid prose, Jan Assmann explores a fascinating question: why is religion so often double-layered, with the religion of the philosophers arrayed against the religion of the fathers? His genealogy of religio duplex begins with ancient Egypt and Israel, with their mixtures of universalism and particularism, and extends to the modern search, by Gandhi and others, for a rapprochement between particular religions – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. – and a universal religion of human dignity. Assmann’s study brims with philosophical acuity, historical depth, and contemporary relevance." Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley "Assmann is well placed to write such a book, and Religio Duplex is an interesting read covering a wide range of topics of various kinds, not least those concerned with belief and with public and private ritual. Students of the Enlightenment and of the nature of religion should read this volume." James Stevens Curl, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 Egyptian Foundations: The Dual Meaning of Signs 9 Religio Duplex and the Endgame of Egyptian Culture 9 Sacramental Interpretation: The Dual Meaning of Signs 14 The Two or Three Scripts of the Ancient Egyptian Culture of Writing 20 2 From the Dual Meaning of Signs to Dual Religion 36 Verba Duplicata: Moses Maimonides 36 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Mosaic Laws: John Spencer 39 The Platonic Construction of Dual Religion: Ralph Cudworth 43 3 Religio Duplex and Political Theology 54 John Toland and the Critique of Political Theology 54 William Warburton and the Redemption of Political Theology 61 Secrecy under the Banner of Morality and Politics 73 4 Religio Duplex and Freemasonry 79 Secret Society Novels 79 Secrecy under the Banner of Nature and Revelation 87 Ignaz von Born and the Vienna Mysteries Project 94 Subterranean Egypt 101 The Magic Flute: Opera Duplex 108 5 In the Era of Globalization: Religio Duplex as Dual Membership 114 Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Memory 114 Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of a ‘Religion of Mankind’ 127 Patriot and Cosmopolitan: Lessing’s ‘Ernst and Falk’, with a Glance at Herder and Wieland 134 Homo Duplex 144 Prospectus: Religio Duplex Today? 149 Retrospectus: Are There ‘Dual Religions’? 157 Noah and Moses 158 Visible and Invisible Religions 163 Notes 175 Bibliography 211 Index 235
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Religio Duplex
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of ''religio duplex'', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can distinguish the two faces of ancient religions more generally: the outer face (that of the official religion) and the inner face (encompassing the mysterious nature of religious experience). Assmann explains that the Early Modern period witnessed the birth of the idea of dual religion with, on the one hand, the religion of reason and, on the other, that of revelation. This concept gained new significance in the Enlightenment when the dual structure of religion was transposed onto the individual. This meant that man now owed his allegiance not only to his native religion, but also toTrade Review"With his characteristic erudition and lucid prose, Jan Assmann explores a fascinating question: why is religion so often double-layered, with the religion of the philosophers arrayed against the religion of the fathers? His genealogy of religio duplex begins with ancient Egypt and Israel, with their mixtures of universalism and particularism, and extends to the modern search, by Gandhi and others, for a rapprochement between particular religions – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. – and a universal religion of human dignity. Assmann’s study brims with philosophical acuity, historical depth, and contemporary relevance." Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley "Assmann is well placed to write such a book, and Religio Duplex is an interesting read covering a wide range of topics of various kinds, not least those concerned with belief and with public and private ritual. Students of the Enlightenment and of the nature of religion should read this volume." James Stevens Curl, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 Egyptian Foundations: The Dual Meaning of Signs 9 Religio Duplex and the Endgame of Egyptian Culture 9 Sacramental Interpretation: The Dual Meaning of Signs 14 The Two or Three Scripts of the Ancient Egyptian Culture of Writing 20 2 From the Dual Meaning of Signs to Dual Religion 36 Verba Duplicata: Moses Maimonides 36 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Mosaic Laws: John Spencer 39 The Platonic Construction of Dual Religion: Ralph Cudworth 43 3 Religio Duplex and Political Theology 54 John Toland and the Critique of Political Theology 54 William Warburton and the Redemption of Political Theology 61 Secrecy under the Banner of Morality and Politics 73 4 Religio Duplex and Freemasonry 79 Secret Society Novels 79 Secrecy under the Banner of Nature and Revelation 87 Ignaz von Born and the Vienna Mysteries Project 94 Subterranean Egypt 101 The Magic Flute: Opera Duplex 108 5 In the Era of Globalization: Religio Duplex as Dual Membership 114 Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Memory 114 Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of a ‘Religion of Mankind’ 127 Patriot and Cosmopolitan: Lessing’s ‘Ernst and Falk’, with a Glance at Herder and Wieland 134 Homo Duplex 144 Prospectus: Religio Duplex Today? 149 Retrospectus: Are There ‘Dual Religions’? 157 Noah and Moses 158 Visible and Invisible Religions 163 Notes 175 Bibliography 211 Index 235
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Cornell University Press The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amusing and enlightening, these essays for the general reader deal with such topics as being reasonable, what it is to be humane, and P. T. Barnum's delightful book on humbugs. Reading them, one is reminded of William James's similar essays, not to adulterate philosophy into chit-chat but to elevate common sense."—Key Reporter"Black's discussion is original, thorough, and interesting, and shows that political philosophy need not always be empty verbiage."—Times Higher Education Supplement"Written in an accessible style, Black's collection of eight essays will be of interest to both professional philosophers and the general reader. . . . Among the questions it asks are: Why should I be rational? What does it mean to behave humanely? What is it to be reasonable? Above all, the book is informed by a sense of humor, a quality as refreshing as it is rare; as Black observes, quoting Hu Hsai, 'life is too serious to be taken altogether seriously.'"—Studies in the Humanities"Very few books by professional philosophers deserve as wide an audience as this one does."—Alasdair MacIntyre, Vanderbilt University
£24.80
Johns Hopkins University Press The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin
Book Synopsis"The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin brings us a much fuller understanding of Franklin's intellectual and literary roots and his later influence among common readers.Trade ReviewThose interested in the history of reading, early America, intellectual history, and Franklin himself would enjoy and profit from this engaging book. Library Journal
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University of Nebraska Press Before Boas
Book SynopsisThe history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man.” Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how “ethnography” originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as “ethnology” by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by reseaTrade Review"A short review cannot do justice to the sophistication of the author's comprehensive and remarkable research, which departs from histories that view the origins of anthropology in classical Greece or Renaissance exploration."—Riva Berleant-Schiller, Choice"Vermeulen's monograph on the "genesis" of ethnography and ethnology will sit as a large and imposing bookend on any history of anthropology shelf for many years to come."—Huon Wardle, American Anthropologist "This important book rewrites the early history of anthropology in new and surprising ways."—James Urry, Australian Journal of Anthropology"Before Boas represents a major contribution to the history of anthropology that must be taken into serious consideration by every scholar in our field."—Sergei Kan, Ethnohistory"Vermeulen's work is meticulous and fascinating, and the layers of ideas, biographies, and historical details make this a compelling book to read and contemplate."—Anne Good, Terrae Incognitae"Deserving to be called a sensation."—Horst Bredekamp, Süddeutsche Zeitung"This is a unique and detailed study of the eighteenth century origins of ethnology or ethnography that offers a new insight in reexamining the scope and subject matter of these disciplines in their earlier stages."—Madhuvanti Karyekar, Museum Anthropology Review"Before Boas will grow in importance with the elapsing of time. Certainly, it will become soon a landmark (if it has not become yet) and will definitively consecrate Han F. Vermeulen as a prominent specialist in this fascinating academic field."—Gheorghiţă Geană, Anuac"This rich book will be useful to researchers concerned with ethnography, anthropology, folklore, the history of science, and postcolonial and whiteness studies. By showing how the world’s peoples were placed on the scholarly agenda, Before Boas will put scholars in all of these fields on firmer footing."—Stephanie Leitch, ISIS"A profoundly useful book."—Rachel D. Koroloff, Ab ImperioTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ Introduction1. History and Theory of Anthropology and Ethnology: Introduction2. Theory and Practice: G. W. Leibniz and the Advancement of Science in Russia3. Enlightenment and Pietism: D. G. Messerschmidt and the Early Exploration of Siberia4. Ethnography and Empire: G. F. Müller and the Description of Siberian Peoples5. Anthropology and the Orient: C. Niebuhr and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition6. From the Field to the Study: A. L. Schlözer and the German Invention of Völkerkunde7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment: Plural Approaches to Human Diversity8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic TraditionConclusionNotesReferences CitedIndex
£55.80
Stanford University Press The Other Adam Smith
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This challenging, cogent study is the first serious overview of the career of Adam Smith (1723–90) . . . The authors' literary approach is refreshing: it is grounded in philosophy, history, and economics, disciplines that provide them with fascinating theoretical tools for reading Smith from a variety of perspectives."—D.A. Robinson, CHOICE"Mike Hill and Warren Montag's revelatory The Other Adam Smith reveals just how important Smith is to [the] debates on sovereignty and life . . . Hill and Montag's brilliant book challenges the reader to think about Adam Smith in new ways and for new purposes."—Daniel O'Quinn, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Mike Hill and Warren Montag argue, convincingly to my mind, that Adam Smith was a major thinker across a vast range of fields. In turn, they suggest not just the other Adam Smith but multiple others . . . Hill and Montag move us beyond interesting but limited binary debates to show that the, apparently, marginal focus on cruelty in Smith's work, has helped justify a political-economy of neo-liberal necro-economics . . . [A] rewarding book."—Derek Wall, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This outstanding interdisciplinary achievement spans English literature, social theory, history of philosophy, history of the book, social theory, and political history in what is a socially important and largely original re-evaluation of the argument for a market society and Liberal political economy more generally."—Eric Schliesser, Ghent University"Hill and Montag's premise is that Adam Smith is a classic thinker in the best sense: No amount of rumination about his writings can exhaust their relevance. As their book demonstrates, no matter what happens in our capitalist world, we can be edified by returning to Smith's texts. Like Smith's writings, this excellent monograph will endure."—Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa"Dispensing with ideological and impartial interpretations, this book offers the first reading of Adam Smith's entire corpus. Reconstructing his work from every aspect and positioning it within the economic, philosophical, and anthropological debates of his time, it offers a radical interrogation of Smith in light of today's most pressing questions and theoretical discussions."—Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa"This book is a welcome addition to Smith scholarship. It is a highly interdisciplinary and contextualized reading of Smith's works, contexts, and legacy."—Brian Glenney, Scottish Philosophy"The Other Adam Smith is a wide-ranging, subtle, and daring book...Anyone interested in Smith or in the intertwining of eighteenth-century philosophy and its historical moment should read this book. So should those interested in the uses and abuses of Smith that are bound to continue in the wake of the so-called populist elections in the United States and abroad."—Steve Newman, Eighteenth Century Studies
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Stanford University Press The Other Adam Smith
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This challenging, cogent study is the first serious overview of the career of Adam Smith (1723–90) . . . The authors' literary approach is refreshing: it is grounded in philosophy, history, and economics, disciplines that provide them with fascinating theoretical tools for reading Smith from a variety of perspectives."—D.A. Robinson, CHOICE"Mike Hill and Warren Montag's revelatory The Other Adam Smith reveals just how important Smith is to [the] debates on sovereignty and life . . . Hill and Montag's brilliant book challenges the reader to think about Adam Smith in new ways and for new purposes."—Daniel O'Quinn, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Mike Hill and Warren Montag argue, convincingly to my mind, that Adam Smith was a major thinker across a vast range of fields. In turn, they suggest not just the other Adam Smith but multiple others . . . Hill and Montag move us beyond interesting but limited binary debates to show that the, apparently, marginal focus on cruelty in Smith's work, has helped justify a political-economy of neo-liberal necro-economics . . . [A] rewarding book."—Derek Wall, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This outstanding interdisciplinary achievement spans English literature, social theory, history of philosophy, history of the book, social theory, and political history in what is a socially important and largely original re-evaluation of the argument for a market society and Liberal political economy more generally."—Eric Schliesser, Ghent University"Hill and Montag's premise is that Adam Smith is a classic thinker in the best sense: No amount of rumination about his writings can exhaust their relevance. As their book demonstrates, no matter what happens in our capitalist world, we can be edified by returning to Smith's texts. Like Smith's writings, this excellent monograph will endure."—Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa"Dispensing with ideological and impartial interpretations, this book offers the first reading of Adam Smith's entire corpus. Reconstructing his work from every aspect and positioning it within the economic, philosophical, and anthropological debates of his time, it offers a radical interrogation of Smith in light of today's most pressing questions and theoretical discussions."—Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa"This book is a welcome addition to Smith scholarship. It is a highly interdisciplinary and contextualized reading of Smith's works, contexts, and legacy."—Brian Glenney, Scottish Philosophy"The Other Adam Smith is a wide-ranging, subtle, and daring book...Anyone interested in Smith or in the intertwining of eighteenth-century philosophy and its historical moment should read this book. So should those interested in the uses and abuses of Smith that are bound to continue in the wake of the so-called populist elections in the United States and abroad."—Steve Newman, Eighteenth Century Studies
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Stanford University Press Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
Book SynopsisIntegrating intellectual biography, philosophical interpretation, and a critical examination of the history of academic disciplines, this book restores philosopher Georg Simmel to his rightful place as a major figure and challenges the frameworks through which his contributions to modern thought have been at once remembered and forgottenTrade Review"The most important study of philosopher George Simmel to ever appear in English, this book does more than contribute to our understanding of a major modern thinker: it offers a fascinating analysis of knowledge formation at the turn of the twentieth century and is a crucial addition to our understanding of Western modernity itself." -- Michael Jennings * Princeton University *"Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary is remarkable for its breadth of knowledge, its philosophical discernment, and its sophisticated approach to the complexity of both Simmel's work and our own contemporary existence." -- Patrice Petro * UC Santa Barbara. *"Anyone interested in understanding the character – and especially the fate – of Simmel's thought would do well to consult Elizabeth Goodstein's Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary." -- Paul Reitter * Times Literary Supplement *"Goodstein has written a truly important book on Simmel and his place on the margins of the discipline of sociology, but beyond this I think she has also produced an equally important work on the need to think differently in a world defined by hyper-connectivity and what Simmel called infinite reciprocity." -- Mark Featherstone * Theory, Culture and Society *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: Modernist Philosophy and the History of Theory chapter abstractThe Prologue sets out the challenge of understanding a thinker who does not fit comfortably into disciplinary categories, presenting Simmel, who was known as a sociologist, a neo-Kantian, and a philosopher of life, as a liminal thinker whose fame and subsequent marginalization index a theoretically significant illegibility. Embracing this marginality and foregrounding the complexity and multiplicity of his oeuvre, it argues, can render Simmel's historical and theoretical significance visible, helping establish critical perspective on contemporary modes of thought by exposing the intertwined genealogies of the academic disciplines of philosophy and sociology and of the metadisciplinary divisions between the humanities and natural and social sciences. Approaching Simmel as modernist philosopher suggests a strategy for rereading the intellectual history of the twentieth century that recognizes his inter- and trans-disciplinary theoretical contributions even as it identifies unrealized possibilities in the liminal space before the modern disciplinary ordering of inquiry was naturalized. 1Introduction: Simmel's Modernity chapter abstractDrawing on primary sources that attest to Simmel's wide-ranging impact on modernist cultural and intellectual life, but also to his checkered academic career, Chapter 1 situates the world-famous philosopher, sociologist, and public intellectual in the historical and cultural milieu of fin-de-siècle Berlin. It introduces the problem of disciplinarity: Simmel's contributions to social science were initially regarded as philosophical innovations, and his self-understanding as a thinker changed over time. Thinking back beyond the naturalized bifurcation of reflection on social and cultural life into humanistic and social scientific disciplines by exploring the meaning of Simmel's shifting self-definition can disclose new resources for cultural theory. Although Simmel's conceptual and methodological role in helping reframe the philosophical inheritance goes largely unrecognized today, terms and concepts with important histories in twentieth-century theory—including constellation, condensation, configuration, form of life, and life-world—may be traced to his work. 2Simmel as Classic: Representation and the Rhetoric of Disciplinarity chapter abstractExploring the relations between Simmel's evolving self-understanding and the paradigm shift that brought the modern social sciences into being, this chapter focuses on the relativistic or perspectivist rethinking of concepts underpinning his mature, modernist approach to philosophizing. Presenting Simmel as a mostly forgotten founding father of modern cultural and critical theory whose work anticipated and influenced subsequent thinkers in many different fields, it begins a critical genealogy of his canonization that uncovers the distorting effects of Simmel's own self-representations. Arguing that he has been systematically misrepresented as an unsystematic thinker through his reception as a sociologist, it places him in the dialectical philosophical tradition, foregrounding Simmel's distinctive conception of form and underlining the importance of the focus on "super-individual" cultural and linguistic formations he inherited from Lazarus and Steinthal's Völkerpsychologie (cultural psychology). 3Memory/Legacy: Georg Simmel as (Mostly) Forgotten Founding Father chapter abstractThis chapter considers how Simmel has been represented and read into the disciplinary canon and history of sociology. Centered on a close examination of the American reception that played a decisive role in establishing, but also marginalizing Simmel as a canonical sociologist, it foregrounds the repeated failures of efforts to overcome the clichés and misrepresentations that have shaped his reception. The hermeneutically questionable reading practices that have facilitated the entry of Simmel's ideas into social science have simultaneously rendered them fertile and obscured the larger philosophical horizons of his thinking. The combination of institutional and disciplinary liminality during his lifetime and a reception marked by ambivalence is historically and theoretically significant: Simmel's apparent illegibility, the chapter argues, can become a site for reflection on constitutive features of the modern disciplinary imaginary that do not form part of methodological self-consciousness and thereby disclose new theoretical resources for today. 4Style as Substance: Simmel's Modernism and the Disciplinary Imaginary chapter abstractThis chapter begins (re)reading key Simmelian texts for still-urgent theoretical and methodological concerns, presenting a work considered the first sociology of modernity, his 1900 Philosophy of Money, as a masterpiece of modernist philosophy and the twentieth century's most significant mostly unread theoretical text. Arguing that its highly selective reception in sociology has obscured the philosophical import of Simmel's approach to everyday social and cultural phenomena, it foregrounds the philosophical and methodological ambition of the work to render visible the contours of an influential modernist style of thought that helped reorient philosophy toward historically and culturally situated, lived experience. The chapter concludes with an examination of Simmel's rethinking of the concepts of culture and spirit, underlining the philosophical significance of the famous discussion of "The Style of Life" that concludes a work that "aspires to be a philosophy of historical and social life as a whole." 5Performing Relativity: Money and Modernist Philosophy chapter abstractFramed by a close reading of the Preface to the Philosophy of Money, this chapter interrogates the tensions between Simmel's methodological ambition and his avowed relativism. Tracing how the project initially conceived as a "psychology of money" took on philosophical contours, it examines how thinking money led Simmel to redefine his disciplinary identity. It then brings the Philosophy of Money's frequently misconstrued effort to create a "new story beneath historical materialism" into conversation with Simmel's conception of the value-, meaning-, and knowledge-generating "cultural process" in and through which, on his post-Nietzschean view, subjectivity and objectivity evolve. Finally, the chapter examines his phenomenological method for illuminating the contradictory multiplicity of (historical, spiritual, cultural) life through a systematic use of "phenomenal series" or "arrays of appearances" to perform a modernist affirmation of the complexity and contradiction of lived experience from the perspective of a cogent metaphysical relativism. 6Disciplining the Philosophy of Money chapter abstractUnderstanding Simmel's relativism as modernist method, this chapter considers how the Philosophy of Money destabilizes what have since become very real boundaries between philosophy and social science. It begins by examining early responses to the work, foregrounding the differential reactions to a modernist mode of theorizing that intervenes in multiple discourses without becoming part of the disciplines that generate them, then considers how the disciplining of Simmel's work as a sociological classic legitimates the very practices of selective reading through which his methodological and theoretical contributions are obscured. Simmel's self-reflexive attempt to illuminate the phenomenon of signification as a dimension of human (collective and individual) life remains liminal for both sociology and philosophy today. Presenting that liminality as a symptom of lacunae constitutive for the modern disciplinary imaginary as a whole, this chapter sets the stage for a return to Simmel's mature Sociology in Part III. 7Thinking Liminality, Rethinking Disciplinarity chapter abstractThis chapter returns to Simmel's disciplinary identity from the perspective of the history of philosophy, attempting to understand a mode of theorizing not just interdisciplinary but preceding, thematizing, and opposing the disciplining of thinking in the early twentieth century. Taking up "the problem of sociology," then returning once again to the Philosophy of Money to consider the account of sciences and disciplines, norms and laws developed there, it asks how the intellectual-cultural and institutional formation of inquiry shapes what can be thought. After foregrounding Simmel's insistence that the cultural-intellectual configurations that organize our modes of inquiry must be grasped in their contingency and specificity, that we need to rethink conceptual consistency by developing "a new concept of cohesion" that refigures thinking about foundations and values in a relativist (historicist, culturalist) key, it returns to Simmel's highly self-reflexive conception of disciplinarity as a historically and culturally contingent formation. 8The Stranger and the Sociological Imagination chapter abstractThis chapter returns to the problem of Simmel's disciplinarity to explore the theoretical potential of his marginality. Examining how his mature reformulation of the "problem of sociology" resituates the figure of the stranger in the dialectical philosophical tradition, it demonstrates that the pervasive troping of Simmel as the stranger he theorized has a symptomatic quality that casts light on the significance of history for theory. Only in light of the ambition and accomplishment of the Philosophy of Money, it argues, do the disciplinary and meta-disciplinary contributions of the Sociology become legible. Here, too, Simmel's modernist reimagining of conceptual consistency is conveyed performatively, via phenomenological series that refigure thinking in a relativist (historicist, culturalist) key. Disclosing new theoretical perspectives on difference and strangeness in (theorizing) culture and society, Simmel's modernist writing transgresses oppositions between humanistic and social scientific, metaphysical and empirical, that are constitutive for the contemporary disciplinary imaginary. Epilogue: Georg Simmel as Modernist Philosopher chapter abstractAs a mature thinker and public intellectual, Simmel strove to foster "philosophical culture" in the face of increasing disciplinary specialization and the professionalization of thought itself in the emergent modern research university. His late work, though frequently misconstrued as turning from sociology to a metaphysical philosophy of life, is continuous with the effort to modernize philosophy in the Philosophy of Money. Considering Simmel's time in Strasbourg and the impact of World War I on his thought and life, the Epilogue briefly discusses his influential late essays on culture and his final masterwork, the View of Life, underlining the significance of his subsequent virtual erasure from intellectual history. Letters written in the weeks before his death attest to Simmel's own insight into the untimeliness of his thought and suggest that his modernist revisioning of the very oldest aims of philosophy and philosophizing may provide a model for theoretical innovation today.
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Northwestern University Press The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Kant Hegel and Cassirer Topics in Historical Philosophy
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University of Pennsylvania Press Secularism and Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Secularism and Hermeneutics is an important work that contains much that will be of interest to any practitioners of biblical studies. Almog's 'genealogy' of the modern universal reading subject presents a bold challenge to those who wish to see the guild operate in a purely 'secular' fashion, as it likewise may unsettle some confessional readers who hold to a 'historical, grammatical' hermeneutic based on 'authorial intent.' Given that many standard surveys of hermeneutics start with Schleiermacher, Almog's point that Schleiermacher's emphasis on the author functioned as a replacement for Herder's emphasis on culture will probably be a significant insight for many readers from a biblical studies background, as this provides a historical background for a platform that often seems to have emerged as a reaction against mere philology or heavy-handed church tradition." * Review of Biblical Literature *"Secularism and Hermeneutics is a well- executed, densely packed text that has the potential to open new vistas on not only the key themes of secularity and hermeneutics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also the contemporary state of critique itself. Almog has given her readers much to consider with this generative text. A careful read is worth the time." * Religious Studies Review *"[O]ne of the most stimulating scholarly monographs I’ve read recently. Almog focuses on how the thinkers of the German Enlightenment — especially Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Johann Michaelis, and Moses Mendelssohn — helped transform the Old Testament into a work of universally resonant world literature, in the process establishing interpretive norms for literary reading as such. Secularism and Hermeneutics is a history not just of biblical reception, but of the development of literary theory." * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"[Secularism and Hermeneutics'] primary project is beautifully executed, and what it promises at the outset, it delivers. The book is, in a word, excellent, and the careful way it treats 'difficult' texts and communities is exemplary. It will be of value for anyone interested in a non-polemic history of secularism, in Jewish-German intellectual relations in the eighteenth century, or in a historically situated history of reading, as well as for those who wish to better understand the political-theological origins of contemporary liberal-secularism." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"Yael Almog’s work is a superb exploration of both the ideology of religious studies and the rise of secularism. Through a genealogical analysis, Almog tries to show how hermeneutics imagined a public readership not limited to the faithful, thus setting the stage for a new religiously disinterested public sphere—that is, secularism." * Literature & Theology *"In Secularism and Hermeneutics, Yael Almog locates biblical interpretation in the German Enlightenment, through the Hebrew Bible, at the center of the generative hermeneutic practices that shaped modern aesthetic, interpretive, and literary practices...Almog has given us a remarkable work of scholarship with big stakes and haunting implications for our times. The centrality of hermeneutic practices, shaped by Hebrew scriptures and formative of modernity’s linguistically produced universalism meets, ironically, Jewishness as the mark of the limits of Enlightenment toleration." * The Eighteenth Century *"Yael Almog explores the centrality of Biblical interpretation, in the critical period 1750-1850, to the shifting configuration of secularization, hermeneutics and politics. She convincingly shows through original and detailed studies of such figures as Herder, Mendelssohn, Heine, Hegel, and Schleiermacher, that the emergence of a new aesthetics derived from changing interpretations of the Old Testament and that, in turn, the advent of a new 'reader' was constitutive for the appearance of a new citizen." * David Sorkin, Yale University *"Yael Almog demonstrates a broad knowledge of the literature on the topic of secularization and hermeneutics and her analysis is clear, lively, and convincing. Her book is an original and significant contribution to the fields of religious studies, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, intellectual history, and philosophical hermeneutics." * Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, Amiens, France *"Secularism and Hermeneutics shows how the most important philosophers constructed or envisioned interpreters of the Bible and other texts in different movements and time periods. The tension Yael Almog describes between the reader as an individual and as a member of a political or religious collective is fascinating." * Abigail Gillman, Boston University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Secularism and Hermeneutics: The Rise of Modern Readership Chapter 1. Rescuing the Text Chapter 2. Hermeneutics and Affect Chapter 3. Perilous Script Chapter 4. On Jews and Other Bad Readers Chapter 5. The Return of the Repressed Bible Coda. Beyond Hermeneutic Thinking Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Elie Halevy
Book SynopsisAn intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer of the era of tyranniesElie Halevy (1870-1937) was one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic. In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how Halevy, best remembered as the historian of British Utilitarianism and nineteenth-century English history, was also a persistent, acute, and increasingly anxious observer of society in a period defined by industrialization and imperialism and by what Halevy famously called the era of tyrannies.Vincent distinguishes three broad phases in the development of Halevy's thought. In the first, Halevy brought his version of neo-Kantianism to debates with sociologists and philosophers and to his study of English Utilitarianism. He forged ties with Xavier Leon, Leon Brunschvicg, and Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier), life-long intellectual interlocutors. Together they founded the Revue de metaphysique et de morale, a continuiTrade Review"[An] outstanding achievement...[Vincent's book] will now be a key point of departure for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual culture of French liberalism in the Third Republic and, indeed, for anyone in search of the roots of the liberal revival initiated by Halévy’s friend and disciple Raymond Aron." * Journal of Modern History *"Incorporating cutting-edge scholarship to produce sophisticated and balanced analytical summaries of Élie Halévy's work, K. Steven Vincent has written a masterful intellectual biography that should appeal to historians, political theorists, and philosophers alike." * Helena Rosenblatt, Graduate Center-CUNY *"K. Steven Vincent excels at intellectual biography and, in this latest book, deploys all available sources to get at the roots and substance of Élie Halévy's thinking. The result is a deftly organized, lucidly written, comprehensive, and meticulous exposition of Halévy's considerable and varied opus that successfully captures his complexity and depth." * Susan Ashley, Colorado College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Neo-Kantianism and British Radicalism Chapter 1. The Early Years Chapter 2. Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale Chapter 3. British Utilitarianism (1896-1904) Part II. French Politics, European Socialism, and British History Chapter 4. The Dreyfus Affair (1897-1901) Chapter 5. L'École Libre des Sciences Politiques and Socialism (1902-1914) Chapter 6. British Affairs: Empire, Methodism, and English Socialists (1905-1914) Part III. World War I and the State of Europe in the Era of Tyrannies Chapter 7. World War I (1914-1918) Chapter 8. Post War (1918-1924) Chapter 9. "The World Crisis" Reconsidered (1924-1932) Chapter 10. The Era of Tyrannies (1932-1937) Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Infinite Variety
Book SynopsisUnnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention. Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical woTrade ReviewThis book is a striking achievement, confident in its abstractions and their utility in illuminating a shared intellectual and aesthetic preoccupation. * Modern Philology *Part of the recent movement in eighteenth-century studies to resist the teleological secularization narrative that has governed much of the literary and cultural criticism in the field, Infinite Variety is also one of the most stimulating, original, and erudite books I've read in some time. Wolfram Schmidgen makes a cogent, compelling, and historically grounded case for the imaginative power of literature at a moment of epistemological crisis. * Helen Deutsch, University of California Los Angeles *In Infinite Variety, Wolfram Schmidgen offers a fresh perspective on literary invention in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England...[T]he perspective of this book is generous and valuable and...readers of all persuasions interested in the early modern history of literature, culture and ideas will be thankful to it for its fertile insights and provocations. * The Seventeenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Cornell University Press Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov—a mathematician, teacher, and social critic—offers a rare firsthand view of provincial Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Translated into English for the first time, these extraordinary observations reveal much about daily village life and the cultural milieu of the time. An acute observer, Rostislavov discusses social and ethnic relationships as well as matters pertaining to education, law enforcement, religious practice, and folk beliefs. Rostislavov''s account of his own education is a harrowing description of coming of age in a Darwinian world of violence and cruelty. Coarse, impoverished schoolboys, brutal and corrupt teachers, and callous landlords formed a harsh environment characterized by sadistic corporal punishment and bitter class hatreds. Variously humorous, elegiac, and passionate, his narrative shows why even those from relatively privileged backgrounds came to detest the aTable of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Translator's Introduction Preface: My Goals and Intentions in Writing My Memoir 1. My Family Background 2. The Village of Palishchi and Its Environs 3. A Village Household 4. Corporal Punishment at Home 5. My Early Education 6. My Family Moves to Tuma 7. Outlaws and Law Enforcement 8. Our Home Life in Tuma 9. Hospitality 10. Household Work 11. Agricultural Work 12. Community Life in Tuma 13. How the Clergy Would Tour the Parish 14. The Kasimov Church School 15. The Church-School Students 16. My Life in Kasimov 17. Society in Kasimov 18. The Tatars of Kasimov 19. Governor-General Balashov 20. The Merchant Riumin 21. The Death of the Tsar Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisDmitrii Ivanoich Rostislavov was a mathematician, teacher and social critic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Translated into English for the first time, his observations on daily life reveal the cultural milieu and issues of his time.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Translator's Introduction Preface: My Goals and Intentions in Writing My Memoir 1. My Family Background 2. The Village of Palishchi and Its Environs 3. A Village Household 4. Corporal Punishment at Home 5. My Early Education 6. My Family Moves to Tuma 7. Outlaws and Law Enforcement 8. Our Home Life in Tuma 9. Hospitality 10. Household Work 11. Agricultural Work 12. Community Life in Tuma 13. How the Clergy Would Tour the Parish 14. The Kasimov Church School 15. The Church-School Students 16. My Life in Kasimov 17. Society in Kasimov 18. The Tatars of Kasimov 19. Governor-General Balashov 20. The Merchant Riumin 21. The Death of the Tsar Endnotes Bibliography Index
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