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This book studies the phenomenon of "cultural transfer" via a gallery of case studies from Europe's early modernity. Perhaps its most original feature is to relate the European phenomenon to events in Europe's "East" (Central Europe) and developing practices of European Orientalism in the Middle East and India.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Orientalist Pococke: Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines and Genres by Claire Gallien
Chapter 2: Jean Barbeyrac, or the ambiguities of political radicality at the dawn of Enlightenment by Edouard Tillet
Chapter 3: Pierre Des Maizeaux, a Great Cultural Intermediary by Hans Bots
Chapter 4: Pierre Coste: philosophy on the margins of Locke's Essay by Philippe Hamou
Chapter 5: Isaac de Beausobre and religious controversy: the case of the Tumult of Thorn in the Bibliothèque Germanique by Pierre Lurbe
Chapter 6: Religions Revealed, Civil and Natural: Cultural Transfer and Montesquieu's "Dissertation on the Politics of the Romans in regard to Religion" by Girolamo Imbruglia
Chapter7: Encyclopedic Transfers and the Internationalization of Intellectual Work: Louis de Jaucourt by Daniel Brewer
Chapter 8: Reconceptualizing Enlightened Networks and their Mediators: Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice and the Transmission of Knowledge across Eighteenth-Century Europe by Clorinda Donato
Chapter 9: William Kenrick, the translator of Rousseau by Isabelle Bour
Chapter 10: The Transcultural Commerce of Sir William Jones: Transplanting and Translating Oriental Beauties by Michael Franklin
Bibliography
Index
About the contributors
About the author
Robert Mankin taught British history at the Université Paris Diderot.
Summary
This book studies the phenomenon of "cultural transfer" via a gallery of case studies from Europe’s early modernity. Perhaps its most original feature is to relate the European phenomenon to events in Europe’s "East" (Central Europe) and developing practices of European Orientalism in the Middle East and India.
