The Darnton Debate. Books And Revolution In The Eighteenth Century - Couverture souple

Mason, Haydn-T

 
9780729406536: The Darnton Debate. Books And Revolution In The Eighteenth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0729406539 ISBN 13 : 9780729406536
Editeur : Voltaire Foundation, 1999

Synopsis

EVER SINCE Professor Robert Darnton aroused the interest of all Enlightenment scholars with the publication of 'The High Enlightenment and the low-life of literature in pre-revolutionary France' in 1971, he has been in the forefront of debate about that period. His work has long been an indispensable study for all those who ponder on the nature and evolution of this great movement. By the mid 1990s, however, it was apparent that Darnton's far-reaching conclusions on the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Revolution merited a comprehensive debate on his whole oeuvre. The essays collected here, by a team of established Enlightenment scholars, take up a whole spectrum of positions about Darnton's work, based on deep reflection or assiduous source-research or both. In a coda to, the volume Robert Darnton responds robustly to the various readings of his work. In places he seeks to rescue it from what he considers to be false interpretations and to set the record straight. But his essay also moves the debate on, bringing insights and information not previously published. His conclusions are flexibly open-ended, and in line with the courtesy that has always characterized his arguments, whatever the rigour with which they have been pursued. As he says, history has no bottom line ; even so, its depths have been richly plumbed in his writings.

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EVER SINCE Professor Robert Darnton aroused the interest of all Enlightenment scholars with the publication of 'The High Enlightenment and the low-life of literature in pre-revolutionary France' in 1971, he has been in the forefront of debate about that period. His work has long been an indispensable study for all those who ponder on the nature and evolution of this great movement. By the mid 1990s, however, it was apparent that Darnton's far-reaching conclusions on the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Revolution merited a comprehensive debate on his whole oeuvre.
The essays collected here, by a team of established Enlightenment scholars, take up a whole spectrum of positions about Darnton's work, based on deep reflection or assiduous source-research or both. In a coda to, the volume Robert Darnton responds robustly to the various readings of his work. In places he seeks to rescue it from what he considers to be false interpretations and to set the record straight. But his essay also moves the debate on, bringing insights and information not previously published. His conclusions are flexibly open-ended, and in line with the courtesy that has always characterized his arguments, whatever the rigour with which they have been pursued. As he says, history has no bottom line ; even so, its depths have been richly plumbed in his writings.

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Éditeur
Voltaire Foundation
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0729406539
ISBN 13 
9780729406536
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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9780729405669: Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

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ISBN 10 :  0729405664 ISBN 13 :  9780729405669
Editeur : Voltaire Foundation, 1998
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