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The Enlightenment : a genealogy / Dan Edelstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edelstein, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- France.
- Philosophy--France--History--18th century.
- Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Philosophy, European--History--18th century.
- Philosophy, European.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Interpreting the Enlightenment: on methods
- A map of the Enlightenment: whither France?
- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment
- Society, the subject of the modern story
- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back
- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes
- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity
- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers
- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité?
- Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii
- Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters
- Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction
- Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical
- From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history?
- France and the European Enlightenment
- Modern myths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226184470
- 0226184471
- 9780226184494
- 0226184498
- OCLC:
- 531718894
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