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The Enlightenment : a genealogy
- Title
- The Enlightenment : a genealogy / Dan Edelstein.
- Author
- Edelstein, Dan.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 209 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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'historicité? -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-162
- ISBN
- 9780226184470 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226184471 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226184494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226184498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010007668
- OCLC
- 531718894
- Author
- Edelstein, Dan.
- Title
- The Enlightenment : a genealogy / Dan Edelstein.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-162