Enlightenment Past - Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Brewer is Professor of French Studies at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext An important reassessment of the afterlife of the Enlightenment and its continuing relevance in twenty-first century France. Zusammenfassung Daniel Brewer examines the cultural construction of the Enlightenment in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. This book presents a significant advance in the field of Enlightenment studies! in an important and timely reassessment of the heritage and continued relevance of Enlightenment ideals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Producing Enlightenment history; 2. The event of Enlightenment: beginnings; 3. The subject of Enlightenment: constructing philosophers, writing intellectuals; 4. Designing the past: thinking history through Montesquieu; 5. Literature and the making of Revolutionary history; 6. Inventing a literary past; 7. Commemorating Enlightenment: bringing out the dead, belatedly; 8. The Voltaire effect; 9. Reading among the ruins; 10. Epilogue; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Brewer, Daniel (University of Minnesota) Brewer, Brewer Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521879446
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87944-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies