Enlightenment Past - Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

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.

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• Authors: Brewer, Daniel Brewer, Daniel (University of Minnesota) Brewer, Brewer Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521175296
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17529-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800