Enlightenment past and present : essays in a social history of ideas /
Over the last three decades Anthony La Vopa has extended his reach as an Enlightenment historian from Germany to England, Scotland, and France. Enlightenment Past and Present: Essays in a Social History of Ideas provides insights into all four contexts, with a view to understanding the Enlightenment...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2022
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2022:09. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: finding meaning in the Enlightenment
- Part 1: Theory and method
- Chapter 1: Conceiving a public: ideas and society in eighteenth-century Europe
- Chapter 2: A new intellectual history? Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment
- Chapter 3: Doing Fichte: reflections of a sobered (but unrepentant) contextual biographer Part 2: Gender
- Chapter 4: Women, gender, and the Enlightenment: a historical turn
- Chapter 5: Thinking about marriage: Kant's liberalism and the peculiar morality of conjugal union
- Chapter 6: The fragility of polite character: the friendship between James Boswell and William Johnson Temple
- Part 3: Language, philosophy, and the imagination
- Chapter 7: Herder's Publikum: language, print, and sociability in eighteenth-century Germany
- Chapter 8: The philosopher and the Schwärmer: on the career of a German epithet from Luther to Kant
- Chapter 9: History, philosophy, and the imagination in Enlightenment studies
- Chapter 10: Specialization run amok? Contextualizing Denis Diderot
- Bibliography
- Index