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Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment
Despite its rhetoric of rupture and rejection of tradition, Enlightenment thinkers sculpted the identity of their movement and projected it into the future via reflection on the past. This volume seeks to explore how the Enlightenment was structured by transmission of older ideas, what processes defined this transmission, and how the Enlightenment was structured by the transmission of older ideas, what processes defined this transmission, and how the Enlightenment has been received from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day, as well as to examine the ramifications of the continued sourcing of ideas generated during the period for different, and sometimes conflicting, social, political and creative projects. The concept of recycling has been addressed in studies of the history of science and sustainability, as well as digital humanities, and this book develops these thoughts to view repurposing as an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry, arguing that artists, scientists and authors have deliberately engaged and harnessed the past to create new elements of their disciplines. In so doing, this book demonstrates that the past was fundamental to the creation of the Enlightenment, and repurposing was the tool by which Enlightenment thinkers crafted an understanding of history, creating a narrative in which their era appeared to be both a break with the past and the culmination of universal history.
Reading cultural transmission through entangled histories / Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee -- Eighteenth-century French literary portraits : the repurposing of a seventeenth-century socialite practice / Cynthia Laura Vialle-Giancotti -- Chemical manipulations of nature : new social categories in Diderot's Encyclopédie / Célia Abele -- Medicine : physicians use their history to promote Enlightenment / Kathleen Wellman -- Religion : moral philosophy in the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon / Clorinda Donato -- Sociability : pleasure, violence, and theater on the militarized French periphery / Logan J. Connors -- Re-performance : navigating the ethics and aesthetics of Enlightenment dance performance for the contemporary stage / Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah -- Misanthropy : Mercier mobilizes Shakespeare against the Revolution / Joseph Harris -- An unexpected journey : from Jean-Jacques's intent to Rousseau's legacy in late-eighteenth-century France / Clovis Gladstone -- Voltaire's fanaticism, then and now / Annelle Curulla -- Feminisms : gendered approaches to French universalism(s) / Valentina Denzel and Tracy Rutler -- Victor Klemperer on Voltaire and Rousseau : the French Enlightenment and German-Jewish autobiographical writing under the Third Reich / Arvi Sepp.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.
Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:07