Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 60) - Softcover

Hayes, Julie Candler

 
9780521030960: Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 60)
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ISBN 10: 052103096X ISBN 13: 9780521030960
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse or "systematic spirit." Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts, arguing instead for a new understanding of "systematic reason" as complex, paradoxical, and ultimately liberating. Through close analysis of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, she emphasizes the urgency of maintaining a dialogue between past and present, Enlightenment and modernity.

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"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

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052103096X
ISBN 13 
9780521030960
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
260

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