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Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion
By Julie Candler Hayes
255 pages
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Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse or "systematic spirit." Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts, arguing instead for a new understanding of "systematic reason" as complex, paradoxical, and ultimately liberating. Through close ...
Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse or "systematic spirit." Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts, arguing instead for a new understanding of "systematic reason" as complex, paradoxical, and ultimately liberating. Through close analysis of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, she emphasizes the urgency of maintaining a dialogue between past and present, Enlightenment and modernity.
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Table of contents
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- Reading the French Enlightenment - Cambridge Studies in French 60 *
- Cambridge Studies in French *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Author's Note x
- Prologue—despotic Enlightenment 1
- Introduction — the Critique of Systematic Reason 3
- Chapter 1 - Système—origins and Itineraries 22
- Chapter 2 - The Epistolary Machine 58
- Chapter 3 - Physics and Figuration in Du Chdtelefs Institutions De Physique' 86
- Chapter 4 - Condiuac and the Identity of the Other 111
- Chapter 5 - Diderot—changing the System 142
- Conclusion—labyrinths of Enlightenment 184
- Notes 192
- Bibliography 224
- Reading the French Enlightenment - Cambridge Studies in French 60 *
- Cambridge Studies in French *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Author's Note x
- Prologue—despotic Enlightenment 1
- Introduction — the Critique of Systematic Reason 3
- Chapter 1 - Système—origins and Itineraries 22
- Chapter 2 - The Epistolary Machine 58
- Chapter 3 - Physics and Figuration in Du Chdtelefs Institutions De Physique' 86
- Chapter 4 - Condiuac and the Identity of the Other 111
- Chapter 5 - Diderot—changing the System 142
- Conclusion—labyrinths of Enlightenment 184
- Notes 192
- Bibliography 224
- Index 240
- Cambridge Studies in French *