The Enlightenment in Practice : : Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670-1794 /

The Enlightenment in Practice : : Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670-1794 / / Jeremy L. Caradonna.

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Public academic prize contests-the concours académique-played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Caradonna, Jeremy L.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Abbreviations and Translation
  • Map of France
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Rebirth of the Concours Académique: Cultural Politics and the Domestication of Letters in the Age of Louis XIV
  • 2. À la Recherche du Concours Académique
  • 3. The Participatory Enlightenment
  • 4. Dijon Revisited: Rousseau's First Discourse from the Perspective of the Concours Académique
  • 5. The Concours Académique, Political Culture, and the Critical Public Sphere
  • 6. The Practical Enlightenment: The Concours Académique, the State, and the Pursuit of Expertise
  • 7. Prize Contests in the Revolutionary Crucible: Decline and Regeneration
  • Conclusion: The Enlightenment in Question
  • Appendixes
  • A. Academies and Societies in France That Held Public Prize Contests from the Fourteenth Century to 1794
  • B. Female Laureates of the Concours Académique, 1671-1790
  • C. Contests founded by the Abbé Raynal
  • D. Contests on Poverty, Begging, and Poor Relief
  • E. Contests Related to Urban Drinking Water
  • F. List of Prize Contests Offered by Academies, Scholarly Societies, and Agricultural Societies in Continental France from 1670 to 1794 (available at http://www.jeremycaradonna.com)
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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