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List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I.
- The Culture of Enlightening en Sorbonne and the Formation of Claude Yvon
- Into the Mid-Century Maelstrom: Claude Yvon between Sorbonne and the Encyclopédistes
- The Encyclopédie and the Polarization of Enlightening Culture in France Part 2.
- Yvon the Encyclopédiste I: Metphysics, Logic, and the History of Philosophy
- Yvon the Encyclopédiste II: Immortality, Immateriality, and an Abbé's Dalliance with Vitalistic Materialism
- Yvon the Encyclopédiste III: Moral Philosophy, Practical Theology, and the Problem of Evil Part 3.
- Yvon in Exile, 1752-1762
- The Return from Exile, c. 1762-1768
- The Quest to Harmonize Philosophy and Religion: The First Attempt, 1762-1768
- Out of the Ashes?: Yvon at Château d'Ormes, c. 1771-1774
- From Yvon's Last Stand before the General Assembly of the Clergy to His Last Days, c. 1770-1789
- Yvon Post-Mortem: Concluding Reflections on the Cultural and Theological Revolution of Enlightening
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
About the author
Jeffrey D. Burson is professor of French history at Georgia Southern University. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including
The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France (2010), and
Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History, co-edited with Ulrich L. Lehner (2014), both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Summary
Argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments all share an intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary “culture of enlightening” that took shape from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era.
