Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion - Couverture rigide

Hayes, Julie Candler

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052165128X ISBN 13 : 9780521651288

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This 1999 book is an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyses the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Châtelet, the Abbé de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical and ultimately liberating. Hayes examines the tensions between freedom and constraint, abstraction and materialism, linear and synoptic order, that pervade not only philosophic and scientific discourse, but also epistolary writing, fiction and criticism. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of theorists from Adorno, Habermas and Foucault to Deleuze and Derrida, she offers a dialogue between the eighteenth century and our own, an ongoing exploration of the question, 'what is Enlightenment?'.

Revue de presse

"readers, especially intellectual historians of science, will find her treatment of Enlightenment text rewarding." The Historian

"This is a rich and impressive study." International Studies in Philosophy, Harvey Chisick

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052165128X
• ISBN 13: 9780521651288
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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