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Culture of Enlightening : Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment /

"Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment, account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the social and political challenges of today cry out for a more comprehensive and serviceable underst...

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Autor principal: Burson, Jeffrey D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The culture of enlightening en Sorbonne and the formation of Claude Yvon
  • Into the midcentury maelstrom: Claude Yvon between Sorbonne and the encyclopedistes
  • The Encyclopedie and the polarization of enlightening culture in France
  • Yvon the encyclopediste I: metaphysics, logic, and the history of philosophy
  • Yvon the encyclopediste II: immortality, immateriality, and an Abbe's dalliance with vitalistic materialism
  • Yvon the encyclopediste III: moral philosophy, practical theology, and the problem of evil
  • Yvon in exile, 1752/1762
  • The return from exile, circa 1762/1768
  • The quest to harmonize philosophy and religion: the first attempt, 1762/1768
  • Out of the ashes? Yvon at Château d'Ormes, circa 1771/1774
  • From Yvon's last stand before the General Assembly of the Clergy to his last days, circa 1770/1789
  • Yvon postmortem: concluding reflections on the cultural and theological revolution of enlightening.