Download or read book Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumi res written by Jean de Viguerie and published by Robert Laffont. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage raconte l'histoire du XVIIIe siècle, en France, en Europe et dans le reste du monde. Pour l'histoire de la France, un dictionnaire complète le récit : on y trouvera les principaux personnages, les événements les plus notables, les idées, les lettres, les sciences et les arts, et toutes les nécessités de la vie quotidienne, comme le logement, le costume ou la cuisine. Le livre comporte également une chronologie, une historiographie et une bibliographie commentée. " Temps des Lumières " n'est pas une simple formule : le siècle est vraiment celui des Lumières, et ce livre le fait voir. Il montre comment la pensée des Lumières et ses valeurs d'utilité et de tolérance ont transformé les rapports sociaux, changé les esprits et les cœurs et jusqu'à l'âme des peuples. On goûtera au fil des pages les charmes de ce monde ancien, sa douceur de vivre et sa politesse, la grâce raffinée de ses œuvres d'art. Mais on pourra aussi découvrir ce qu'il y avait en lui d'insensible et d'inhumain, la nouvelle dureté des rapports sociaux, l'abandon de l'enfant, l'avilissement de la femme et le consentement unanime à l'asservissement par l'esclavage. Nul siècle n'est plus contrasté. Nul n'est plus désenchanté. D'un côté il appelle le bonheur, et de l'autre il répond : il n'y a pas de bonheur. " De l'ange à l'huître, écrit Mme du Deffand, rien n'est heureux. " Nulle époque peut-être ne ressemble davantage à la nôtre, et c'était une raison de plus de n'en cacher aucun aspect.
Download or read book Lumi res du nord written by Frédéric Barbier and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propose une étude sur ce que Henri-Jean Martin appelait le petit monde du livre : imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs, petits marchands, revendeurs, colporteurs, etc., dans le cadre géographique des départements actuels du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Montre la mutation qui s'opère pendant le siècle des lumières, de la librairie d'Ancien Régime à la seconde révolution du livre.
Download or read book Le si cle des Lumi res written by Béatrice Didier and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment written by Michel Delon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
Download or read book Models of the History of Philosophy written by Gregorio Piaia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit humain animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the philosophes and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be “general” histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography.
Download or read book The Literary Market written by Geoffrey Turnovsky and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves—the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property—than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.
Download or read book Human Nature and the French Revolution written by Xavier Martin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official" revolutionary discourse, very divergent views can be traced in a variety of sources from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Michelet's phrases, "Know men in order to act upon them" sums up the problem that Martin's study constantly seeks to elucidate and illustrate: it reveals the prevailing tendency to see men as passive, giving legislators and medical people alike free rein to manipulate them at will. His analysis impels the reader to revaluate the Enlightenment concept of humanism. By drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the anthropology of Enlightenment and revolutionary France often conflicts with concurrent discourses.
Download or read book La France des Lumi res written by Daniel Roche and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A la fin du XVIIe siècle, " la majorité des Français pensaient comme Bossuet ". Au XVIIIe siècle, " les Français pensent comme Voltaire ", dit-on. Le XVIIIe siècle se situe bien entre deux mondes. D'un côté, il vit encore au rythme des contraintes et des traditions, et repose sur l'antique association du religieux et de l'Etat. A la tête de cet édifice, le roi-prêtre, agent principal du politique, dont les hommes sont à la fois les moyens et la fin. Mais en même temps un autre système de références se dessine: l'heure des montres et des horloges, qui succède au temps sacré des églises, tout comme la maîtrise de l'espace transforment la vie ordinaire des Français. Une autre société se met en place, celle de l'échange et du développement du commerce, celle des grands ports et celle des grandes cités de l'entreprise. Au sein même de la France profonde apparaît une France plus ouverte, plus mobile. Elle revendique un ordre humain autonome où l'individu devient la mesure de toutes choses. Les problèmes de fiscalité, de justice, de sécurité montent sur le devant de la scène, et cette contestation sociale et politique contribue à former l'opinion publique: la personne du roi, la Cour sont désormais soumis à la critique. Comment les contemporains ont-ils compris ce basculement du monde? Comment en ont-ils été les acteurs? Comment, tandis que la société se désacralisait, leurs croyances, leurs valeurs et leurs habitudes se sont-elles modifiées? Cette histoire de La France des Lumières nous plonge dans les racines de la modernité. Elle nous invite à une passionnante relecture d'un siècle qui fit l'apologie du négoce, exalta la nature, la science et le progrès, d'un temps aussi qui crut au bonheur pour tous. Daniel Roche est professeur à l'université de Paris-I et directeur d'études à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Lumières, en particulier Les Républicains des Lettres (Fayard, 1988), et La Culture des apparences (Fayard, 1989), et a reçu le grand prix national d'histoire pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.
Download or read book The Painter s Touch written by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France What can be gained from considering a painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does the painter’s own experience of the process of making matter for our understanding of both the painting and its maker? The Painter’s Touch addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides close readings of the works of François Boucher, Jean-Siméon Chardin, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, entirely recasting our understanding of these painters’ practice. Using the notion of touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth traces how the distinct logic of these painters’ work—the operation of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard—contributed to the formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she repositions these painters in the artistic culture of their time, shifting attention from institutions such as the academy and the Salon to the realms of the market, the medium, and the body. Lajer-Burcharth analyzes Boucher’s commercial tact, Chardin’s interiorized craft, and Fragonard’s materialization of eros. Foregrounding the question of experience—that of the painters and of the people they represent—she shows how painting as a medium contributed to the Enlightenment’s discourse on the self in both its individual and social functions. By examining what paintings actually “say” in brushstrokes, texture, and paint, The Painter’s Touch transforms our understanding of the role of painting in the emergence of modernity and provides new readings of some of the most important and beloved works of art of the era.
Download or read book Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth Century French Political Thought written by Anoush Fraser Terjanian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.
Download or read book Using the Encyclop die written by Daniel Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As editors of the Encyclop die, Diderot and D'Alembert claimed that one of the work's greatest strengths was that the knowledge it contained was useful. It was indeed, for the Encyclop die assembled existing knowledge from a wide range of fields, making that knowledge potentially accessible to a broad readership. In addition, the Encyclop die contributed to creating new areas of inquiry and forming new knowledge in vast fields now called science and technology, the arts and humanities. The sheer amount of knowledge contained in the pages of the Encyclop die is impressive enough. But what the encyclopedists aimed for was a way to put knowledge to work. What they sought above all was a way to fashion critical knowledge, the kind designed to demystify readers, to 'undeceive them' as Diderot put it, and thus to free them from the reign of superstition, doctrine, and received ideas. The Encyclop diedoes aim to advance the Enlightenment project in this fashion. It also contains voices that are hostile or merely indifferent to such a grandiose project. Yet ultimately, the encyclopedists are correct in their claim that the Encyclop die provides a stronger, more powerful way of knowing things, one more able to resist or at least to situate critically prior ways of knowing. A century and a half after the appearance of the first volume of the Encyclop die in 1751, as we open its pages - or view them on-line or from a CD-Rom - what the encyclopedists knew is of less importance to us now than how they knew. Or rather, to understand what the Encyclop die presents to its readers in the way of knowledge, we must also consider how that knowledge is to be read. For us today, the most fascinating, compelling, and challenging aspect of this daring, monumental experiment is the way it entwines what the present volume calls ways of knowing and ways of reading. Thanks to the extensive scholarship of literary and cultural historians, we now know more than ever about the Encyclop die project, from the socio-intellectual networks to which individual encyclopedists belonged, to the print culture networks through which their work circulated. Building on that contextual knowledge, the present volume returns to the text of the Encyclop die in a series of essays that consider, in various ways, the encyclopedic relation to knowledge. The range of topics treated here is broad, corresponding quite naturally to the breadth of the Encyclop die itself. But these essays call us to reflect on the twin issues of epistemology and history, exploring the questions, debates, and paradigms in terms of which critical knowledge is produced in the eighteenth century, as well as in our own.
Download or read book Fran ois P ron written by Edward Duyker and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and meticulously researched biography, this title details the life of famed scientist Francois Peron--from his early years spent in the French revolutionary army to an ambitious medical student who gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. Discussing the expedition--which was famously marked by the vexed relationship between Peron and Baudin--this life story tells of Peron's profound achievements, including the pioneering observations in zoological, oceanographic, and ethnographic studies. A balanced assessment of the difficult yet engaging relationship between Peron and Baudin, this biography also acts as an analysis of the conduct of science during some of the most turbulent years in French history.
Download or read book Le si cle des lumi res written by Pierre M. Conlon and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the names of authors, the index includes the names of editors and translators. Each title is followed by a serial number of which the first two numbers indicate the year of publication. The letters Ds precede the serial numbers of works in the Deuxieme supplement. The names of those who contributed to the works of others are also in this index. In the same way, it also includes the names of persons to whom writings have been attributed. As bishops usually identified themselves by their titles rather than by their names, we include the names of their dioceses. So as to avoid confusion, the years of their tenure of office are given. Where known, the years of birth and death of writers are included in the index. French text."
Download or read book The Memoirs of Madame de la Guette written by Felix Raymond Freudmann and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1957 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L aventure de l Encyclop die 1775 1800 written by Robert Darnton and published by Seuil. This book was released on 1992 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical and Critical Dictionary written by Pierre Bayle and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius, Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.
