A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography: 3 (Brill's Companions to European History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004251855 ISBN 13: 9789004251854

Publisher: Brill, 2013

Synopsis

A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Siofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, Francois-Emmanuel Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akca Atac, and Robert Sparling.

About this title

About the Author:

Sophie Bourgault is Assistant Professor of political theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Publications include articles on the musical thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and on appeals to the Ancients during the Enlightenment. Robert Sparling is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Ethique, Universite de Montreal (Canada). He is the author of Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9004251855
• ISBN 13: 9789004251854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 510
• Editor: Bourgault Sophie, Sparling Robert