The Cambridge companion to the French enlightenment / edited by Daniel Brewer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewer, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--France.

Enlightenment.

Philosophy, French--18th century.

Philosophy, French.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. Each essay presents a concise view of an important aspect of the French Enlightenment, discussing its defining characteristics, internal dynamics and historical transformations. The Companion discusses the most influential reinterpretations of the Enlightenment that have taken place during the last two decades, reinterpretations that both reflect and have contributed to important re-evaluations of received ideas about the Enlightenment and the early modern period more generally.

Contents:

Chronology

The Enlightenment today? / Daniel Brewer

Private lives, public space: a new social history of the Enlightenment / Antoine Lilti

Anthropology / Andrew Curran

Commerce / Paul Cheney

Science / J.B. Shank

Political thought / Dan Edelstein

Sex and gender, feeling and thinking: imagining women as intellectuals / Julie Candler Hayes

Religion / Charly Coleman

Art and aesthetic theory: claiming Enlightenment as viewers and critics / Jennifer Milam

Enlightenment literature / Thomas DiPiero

Philosophe/philosopher / Stéphane Van Damme

Music / Downing A. Thomas

Architecture and the Enlightenment / Anthony Vidler

Medicine and the body in the French Enlightenment / Anne Vila

Space, geography, and the global French Enlightenment / Charles W.J. Withers.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316188811

1316188817

9781316190678

1316190676

9781139108959

1139108956

OCLC:

894992220