The internationalization of intellectual exchange in a globalizing Europe, 1636-1780 / edited by Robert Mankin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mankin, Robert, editor.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual cooperation--17th century.

Intellectual cooperation.

Intellectual cooperation--18th century.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world. The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way that the work as a whole is offered as a gallery of portraits leading from one kind of cultural understanding to another and then another... Geographically, the range is broadly European (England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) though the aim is never to display how national identities arose. Nor is this range a matter of 'covering' the field. The figures treated were all important in their own right, and yet too often they receive scholarly attention only in passing. The singular identity studied here, if there is one, could be Europe's, but the theme emphasized now and then is also that of the 'internationalization' of intellectual activity in a very long eighteenth century. The bookend chapters involving the understanding of the Orient reinforce the internationalization and the fostering of a European identity. The volume aims less to highlight or track specific ideas transported from one cultural context to another, though there are necessarily many examples given. It proposes instead to illustrate the evolution of post-humanist cultural activity in Europe, by beginning with a series of studies in which debate arises from religious positions (not only Protestant, but Muslim, Catholic, Jesuit, Jansenist and Jewish traditions) and closing with debate become philosophical and encyclopedic. As such, the volume documents a characteristic view of the transformation of early modern intellectual activity as its center moves from religion to philosophy; and it thereby draws special attention to the essays in the middle of the volume. These deal with figures active towards the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, and their abilities, difficulties and conflicts in finding new spaces for intellectual life outside of religious and political institutions--in public discussions of philosophy, toleration, journalism, law and the curious spatialization we refer to as Anglophilia.

Contents:

Orientalist Pococke: Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines, and Genres / Claire Gallien

Jean Barbeyrac, or the Ambiguities of Political Radicality at the Dawn of the Enlightenment / Edouard Tillet

Pierre Des Maizeaux, a Great Cultural Intermediary / Hans Bots

Philosophy in the Margins: Pierre Coste's Annotations to the French Translation of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding / Philippe Hamou

Isaac de Beausobre and Religious Controversy: The Case of the Tumult of Thorn in the Bibliothéque Germanique / Pierre Lurbe

Religions Revealed, Civil and Natural: Cultural Transfer and Montesquieu's "Dissertation on the Politics of the Romans in Regard to Religion" / Girolamo Imbruglia

Encyclopedic Transfers and the Internationalization of Intellectual Work: Louis de Jaucourt / Daniel Brewer

Reconceptualizing Enlightened Networks and Their Mediators: Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice and Transmission of Knowledge across Eighteenth-Century Europe / Clorinda Donato

William Kenrick as Translator of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Isabelle Bour

The Transcultural Commerce of Sir William Jones: Transplanting and Translating Oriental Beauties / Michael Franklin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-789-7