The Republic of Letters - Couverture rigide

Fumaroli, Marc

 
9780300221602: The Republic of Letters
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300221606 ISBN 13 : 9780300221602
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French

In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life―and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought‑provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marc Fumaroli is a professor emeritus at the Collège de France and a member of the British Academy, the Académie française, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Société d’histoire littéraire de la France. Lara Vergnaud is a French‑English translator based in Washington, DC.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300221606
ISBN 13 
9780300221602
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
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Personne responsable
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