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The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Daniel Brewer
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:270
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
History of Western philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521175296
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 March 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Over the last two hundred years the theories and ideals of the Enlightenment have come to be viewed as the foundation of modern Western political and intellectual culture. Particularly in France they have played a fundamental role in the development of national identity. In a series of richly contextualised readings Daniel Brewer examines the cultural construction of the Enlightenment in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. He examines a range of important Enlightenment texts, explores the ways in which they defined their modernising project, and analyses the cultural and political uses to which they have been put by scholars, writers and intellectuals. This book presents a significant advance in the field of Enlightenment studies, in an important and timely reassessment of the heritage and continued relevance of Enlightenment ideals.

Reviews

"Recommended." -Choice "Brewer has made a valiant and commendable effort to read widely in French historiography and historical theory. If all scholars--literary, historical, or otherwise--ranged as widely outside their own disciplines as Brewer, we would all be better off." -Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, H-France Review