Enlightenment Portraits

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Michel Vovelle
University of Chicago Press, 18.08.1997 - 456 Seiten
Enlightenment Portraits permits us to see direct actors in history, people who took an active part in the collective adventures that put the human being at the center of Western civilizations vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, and explorers, also soldiers and women.

The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an irregular and unequal way: areas and environments in which new ideas penetrated and took effect alternated with shadowy patches. The fundamental structures of society may have remained stable, but new ways of producing, of being, and of appearing made sometimes abrupt headway. Attitudes toward life, birth, love, marriage and sexuality, and death had begun to change.

The twilight of the Enlightenment came at the end of the eighteenth century, part of a sequence of events of which the French Revolutions was simply the paroxysm.

A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows contemporary readers to reflect on how nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have constructed their views on eighteenth-century man.
 

Inhalt

Introduction Michel Vovelle
1
1 The Noble Pierre Serna
30
2 The Soldier JeanPaul Bertaud
85
3 The Businessman Louis Bergeron
122
4 The Man of Letters Roger Chartier
142
5 The Man of Science Vincenzo Ferrone
190
6 The Artist Daniel Arasse
226
7 The Explorer MarieNoëlle Bourguet
257
8The Functionary Carlo Capra
316
9 The Priest Dominique Julia
356
10The Woman Dominique Godineau
393
Index
427
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Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

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