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Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0195104323
Author : Michel Delon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3153 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135960056
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.
Author : Ellen Judy Wilson,Peter Hanns Reill
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9781438110219
A comprehensive reference guide on the eighteenth century time period known as the Enlightenment.
Author : Joanna Stalnaker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801462344
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration—rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields—has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century.
Author : Michel Delon,Philip Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157958246X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313977716
Author : William E. Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781576078877
The first introductory A–Z resource on the dynamic achievements in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds behind the developments and science's new cultural role. Though the Enlightenment was a time of amazing scientific change, science is an often-neglected facet of that time. Now, Science in the Enlightenment redresses the balance by covering all the major scientific developments in the period between Newton's discoveries in the late 1600s to the early 1800s of Michael Faraday and Georges Cuvier. Over 200 A-Z entries explore a range of disciplines, including astronomy and medicine, scientists such as Sir Humphry Davy and Benjamin Franklin, and instruments such as the telescope and calorimeter. Emphasis is placed on the role of women, and proper attention is given to the shifts in the worldview brought about by Newtonian physics, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's "chemical revolution," and universal systems of botanical and zoological classification. Moreover, the social impact of science is explored, as well as the ways in which the work of scientists influenced the thinking of philosophers such as Voltaire and Denis Diderot and the writers and artists of the romantic movement.
Author : Sam Stark
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404204180
Highlights the life and discusses the history occurring during the upbringing of the French editor of the "Encyclopedia," the first of its kind.
Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521651913
Cultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge.
Author : Peter B. Kaufman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644210611
How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone? In The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police—throughout history, all have sought to stanch the free flow of information. Kaufman writes of times when the Bible could not be translated—you’d be burned for trying; when dictionaries and encyclopedias were forbidden; when literature and science and history books were trashed and pulped—sometimes along with their authors; and when efforts to develop public television and radio networks were quashed by private industry. In the 21st century, the enemies of free thought have taken on new and different guises—giant corporate behemoths, sprawling national security agencies, gutted regulatory commissions. Bereft of any real moral compass or sense of social responsibility, their work to surveil and control us are no less nefarious than their 16th- and 18th- and 20th- century predecessors. They are all part of what Kaufman calls the Monsterverse. The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge maps out the opportunities to mobilize for the fight ahead of us. With the Internet and other means of media production and distribution—video especially—at hand, knowledge institutions like universities, libraries, museums, and archives have a special responsibility now to counter misinformation, disinformation, and fake news—and especially efforts to control the free flow of information. A film and video producer and former book publisher, Kaufman begins to draft a new social contract for our networked video age. He draws his inspiration from those who fought tooth and nail against earlier incarnations of the Monsterverse—including William Tyndale in the 16th century; Denis Diderot in the 18th; untold numbers of Soviet and Central and East European dissidents in the 20th—many of whom paid the ultimate price. Their successors? Advocates of free knowledge like Aaron Swartz, of free software like Richard Stallman, of an enlightened public television and radio network like James Killian, of a freer Internet like Tim Berners-Lee, of fuller rights and freedoms like Edward Snowden. All have been striving to secure for us a better world, marked by the right balance between state, society, and private gain. The concluding section of the book, its largest piece, builds on their work, drawing up a progressive agenda for how today’s free thinkers can band together now to fight and win. With everything shut and everyone going online, The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge is a rousing call to action that expands the definition of what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century.
Author : Michel Delon,Philip Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1481 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 157958246X
Presents overviews of countries on the Continent during the 18th century where the Enlightenment philosophy took hold, cultural topics(astronomy, libraries, salons, coffeehouses), aesthetic movements (Baroque, grotesque), anthropological topics(love, work, children, surgery), and descriptive topics(grand tour).
Author : Mark G. Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0826421180
The first reference work on one of the key subjects in American history, filling an important gap in the literature, with over 500 original essays. >
Author : Robert DARNTON,Robert Darnton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674030183
A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's Encyclopedie, Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas. He fully explores the workings of the literary market place, including the roles of publishers, book dealers, traveling salesmen, and other intermediaries in cultural communication. How publishing functioned as a business, and how it fit into the political as well as the economic systems of prerevolutionary Europe are set forth. The making of books touched on this vast range of activities because books were products of artisanal labor, objects of economic exchange, vehicles of ideas, and elements in political and religious conflict. The ways ideas traveled in early modern Europe, the level of penetration of Enlightenment ideas in the society of the Old Regime, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution are brilliantly treated by Darnton. In doing so he unearths a double paradox. It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas. And the state, which initially had suppressed those ideas, ultimately came to favor them. Yet at this high point in the diffusion and legitimation of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution erupted, destroying the social and political order in which the Enlightenment had flourished. Never again will the contours of the Enlightenment be drawn without reference to this work. Darnton has written an indispensable book for historians of modern Europe.
Author : Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226134768
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.
Author : Mark G. Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 178539424X
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment is the first reference work on this key subject in early American history. With over 500 original essays on key American Enlightenment figures, it provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has recently centered on the European Enlightenment.