Cargando…
Enemies of the Enlightenment : the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.
Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2001.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: A CENTURY BLINDED BY LIGHT; Anti-Philosophes at the End of the Old Regime; From Dark Despair to Dark Reaction; Constructing Philosophie, Constructing the Enlightenment; Anti-Philosophe Discourse; Envisioning the Future; A Nascent Ideology of the Right; CHAPTER 2: THE REVOLUTION AS THE REALIZATION OF PHILOSOPHY; Providence, Conspiracy, and Philosophie; Confirming Worst Suspicions; From Anti-Philosophe to Counterrevolutionary; Varieties of the Plot; The Revolution Crowns Its King.
- CHAPTER 3: THE TERROR AND THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENTThe Power of Prophecy; Reconstructing Philosophie, Reconstructing the Enlightenment; The Counter-Enlightenment International; Philosophie, the God That Failed; CHAPTER 4: CONCRETE LITERARY POLITICS DURING THE REIGN OF NAPOLEON; Napoleon, the Revolution, and Anti-Philosophie; Religion; The Patriarchal Family; History; Prejudice, Custom, and Tradition; The Great Age of Louis XIV; Criticism of Napoleon and Napoleon's Cooptation of Anti-Philosophie.
- CHAPTER 5: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST: THE RESTORATION STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENMENTA Fleeting Ultra Dawn; Confronting Enemies of Old; Philosophes in New Clothing; Fighting Bad Books with Good; Eternal Return; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX.