The Enlightenment : a genealogy / / Dan Edelstein.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 209 p. |
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Table of 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'historicite?
- 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.