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3 produkter
3 produkter
Del 259 - Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Anatomy of Superstition
Study of the Historical Theory and Practice of Pierre Bayle
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
1 592 kr
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This book investigates what actually happens when Pierre Bayle writes about the past and challenges the still prevalent view that he is dispassionate in the way he treats the subjects of the more than two thousand articles in his biographical Dictionnaire historique et critique. It opens with two case studies of the way he uses the sources available to him, which reveal a committed writer at work. Subsequent chapters explore the theory that shapes his erudition; the method that he devised to discern falsehood from truth; his critical approach to Scripture; his conceptual reconstruction of the past. Bayle emerges from this as a writer whose interest in the past is more than antiquarian. The ideal of impartiality, which he drew from Renaissance conceptions of history, is not neutral but always situated. For all their apparent objectivity, the articles in the Dictionnaire are actually shaped by the debates, conflicts, and politics of Bayle’s own time and place. In 1989, when this book was first published, its intertextual and contextualised reading of Bayle was innovative. Although many similar studies followed, this book led the way by developing an approach that allows us to gain access to the deeper strata of Bayle’s thought.
Del 1 - Correspondance de Pierre Bayle
Correspondance de Pierre Bayle
Inbunden, Franska, 1999
2 619 kr
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Del 23 - European Connections
Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe- L’écriture de soi dans l’Europe moderne
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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What does it mean to narrate the self? Is there a ‘self’ to be narrated? What form should such narratives or writings take? The authors of the sixteen essays collected in this volume use a variety of approaches to study a broad range of what are now called ‘ego-documents’ from the Renaissance to the beginning of the nineteenth century. From them it emerges that ‘the self’ is not an acknowledged fact, but rather a historical process, which is neither linear nor stable.Que peut bien signifier l’écriture de soi à l’époque moderne ? Y a-t-il même un « moi » à décrire et raconter ? Quelles formes peuvent prendre de tels récits ? Les seize contributions rassemblées dans ce volume cherchent à répondre à ces questions en interrogeant, suivant diverses approches, une grande variété de textes de la Renaissance à la Révolution, relevant de ce que l’historiographie tend à nommer des « ego-documents ». A travers l’étude de ces textes, il apparaît que le « moi », loin d’être un donné universel, est le fruit d’un processus historique qui n’est ni linéaire ni stable.