The Enlightenment
Subtitle: a genealogy
By: Dan Edelstein.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226184470; 9780226184494
Subjects: Enlightenment -- France; Philosophy -- France -- History -- 18th century; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of; Philosophy -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interpreting the Enlightenment: on methods; title: A map of the Enlightenment: whither France?; title: The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment; title: Society, the subject of the modern story; title: Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back; title: Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes; title: The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity; title: An ancient god: pagans and philosophers; title: Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité?; title: Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii; title: Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters; title: Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction; title: Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical; title: From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history?; title: France and the European Enlightenment; title: Modern myths.