Criticism in Action : Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing /

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Dena Goodman here offers a fresh explanation of how critical theory broke out of the mold of an earlier tradition of discourse-the mirror for princes genre-and shaped its own course in the eighteenth century. Criticism in Action provides a historical analysis of French Enlightenment texts as actions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodman, Dena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Enlightenment.
Political science > France > History > 18th century.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy.
Political Science & Political History.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. MONTESQUIEU: The Epistolary Form of Criticism
  • 1. The Comparative Critical Method
  • 2. The System of Fidelities
  • 3. Justice as an Alternative Social Bond
  • PART II. ROUSSEAU: Posing Criticism Historically
  • 4. Chance and Necessity
  • 5. Historical Narrative: The Form of the Text
  • PART III. DIDEROT: The Dialogical Critique of Society
  • 6. The Implied Reader Reintroduced
  • 7. The Dialogue between Two Cultures
  • 8. Critical Activity as Political Action
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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