Bokus
James Fowler, Marine Ganofsky - Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794

Av James Fowler, Marine Ganofsky

Del i serien Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

1885 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning
In a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an ‘emanation of virtue’. In adapting the concept of virtue to Republican ends, Robespierre was drawing on traditions associated with ancient Greece and Rome. But Republican tradition formed only one of many strands in debates concerning virtue in France and elsewhere in Europe, from 1680 to the Revolution. This collection focuses on moral-philosophical and classical-republican uses of ‘virtue’ in this period – one that is often associated with a ‘crisis of the European mind’. It also considers in what ways debates concerning virtue involved gendered perspectives. The texts discussed are drawn from a range of genres, from plays and novels to treatises, memoirs, and libertine literature. They include texts by authors such as Diderot, Laclos, and Madame de Staël, plus other, lesser-known texts that broaden the volume’s perspective. Collectively, the contributors to the volume highlight the central importance of virtue for an understanding of an era in which, as Daniel Brewer argues in the closing chapter, ‘the political could not be thought outside its moral dimension, and morality could not be separated from inevitable political consequences’.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

James Fowler is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of French, King's College, London. Publications include Voicing desire: family and sexuality in Diderot's narrative (Oxford, 2000); The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in 'Clarissa' and the Roman libertin (Oxford, 2011); Richardson and the Philosophes (Oxford, 2014); and New Essays on Diderot (ed., Cambridge, 2011; 2014). Marine Ganofsky est maître de conférences en littérature française à l’Université de St Andrews. Ses recherches portent sur le dix-huitième siècle et sa quête de bonheur qu’elle étudie depuis la perspective de la littérature, de l’esthétique, de la philosophie et de l’histoire socio-culturelle. Son premier livre explore le sujet des nuits libertines et elle travaille actuellement sur le concept d’illusion au siècle des Lumières.Marine Ganofsky is a lecturer in French literature at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the eighteenth century and its quest for happiness. She approaches the topic through the lens of literature, aesthetics, philosophy and socio-cultural history. Her first book looked at libertine nights and she is now working on the concept of illusion in the Age of Enlightenment.

Recensioner i media

'This volume avoids the trap of many others of its kind, as the articles are selected and assembled in a coherent manner in a chronological order in such a way as to give a truly comprehensive view of the of the subject matter.' Rotraud von Kulessa, 18th Century FictionTranslated from English, 'This volume escapes the trap of many others of its kind, because the articles are chosen and put together in a coherent way in a chronological order in such a way as to be able to give a real overview of the subject matter.'

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.

Mer från samma serie