Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deijl, Lucas van der.

Series:

Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Deijl Lucas : Lucas van der Deijl is assistant professor of early modern Dutch literature at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on the history of the Dutch Early Enlightenment and on early modern drama, integrating computational text analysis with methods from cultural history, translation studies, and literary studies

Summary:

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720).In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction

Part I Reforming the language of philosophy

2 The Hobbesian Turn

3 Enlightened vocabularies

Part II Translating the New Philosophy

4 The search for linguistic transparency

5 The politics of linguistic purism

6 The rhetoric of translation

7 The eclecticism of the marketplace

8 Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix A. The Translation Corpus

Appendix B. The Test Corpus

Index of persons

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-077572-1

1-04-078705-3

1-003-70858-7

90-485-6376-3

9781003708582

OCLC:

1544720808