The Cambridge companion to the French enlightenment

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

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 knowle...

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Other Authors: Brewer, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Enlightenment > France.
Philosophy, French > 18th century.
Electronic resources (E-books)
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of 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.

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