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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in Paris around 1750, The Enlightenment in Crisis places students amid the intellectual and political tension of the Enlightenment. France is Europes cultural powerhouse: Its language, fashions, and luxury goods shape tastes across the continent, and Paris draws artists, writers, and travelers from afar. Yet within this intellectual moment there lie deep contradictions. The monarchy projects strength while burdened by war debts, royal censors struggle to contain new ideas, and most ordinary peoplepeasants and urban laborerslive far from the elegant salons where elites debate philosophy. In this world of salons and print culture, knowledge itself is becoming a form of power. At the center of the game is the ambitious Encyclopedie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and with contributions from dozens of leading thinkers, which aims to gather and organize all human knowledge. By championing progress through reason and science, the project provokes fierce resistance from religious authorities and royal officials. In this game, students take on the roles of philosophers, writers, scientists, nobles, clergy, and patrons in a Parisian salon, debating freedom of thought versus orthodoxy, freedom of expression versus censorship, reform versus tradition, equality versus hierarchy, human rights versus empire and slavery. Ultimately, they consider how far reason should go in challenging the political and religious order. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, by Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Louis, Chevalier de Jaucourt edited by Scott Richard St. Louis and David Eick Eick's and St. Louis's thoughtful selection of articles from Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie provides an excellent gateway to some of the highlights and contradictions of French Enlightenment thought. Professors and students alike will find this anthology (and its introduction and critical apparatus) to be tremendously useful. ~ Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University), author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. There is no better way to explore the French Enlightenment than by dipping into its greatest work, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. In this volume, Scott Richard St. Louis and David Eick have I selected an eclectically wide range of articles to give students of French language and literature a means of entering into the experience of reading the original. A useful introduction, biographical sketches, and a handy glossary provide sure guidance. ~ Dena Goodman (University of Michigan), author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. This new anthology of the Encyclopédie comes with a lively, up-to-date introduction and an appropriately selective glossary. Above all, the articles chosen are extremely varied in terms of discipline and approach, so that instructors and students can choose from a range of entries to what is ultimately a heterogeneous work. ~ Jeff Loveland (University of Cincinnati), author of The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century. 270 Pages.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in Paris around 1750, The Enlightenment in Crisis places students amid the intellectual and political tension of the Enlightenment. France is Europes cultural powerhouse: Its language, fashions, and luxury goods shape tastes across the continent, and Paris draws artists, writers, and travelers from afar. Yet within this intellectual moment there lie deep contradictions. The monarchy projects strength while burdened by war debts, royal censors struggle to contain new ideas, and most ordinary peoplepeasants and urban laborerslive far from the elegant salons where elites debate philosophy. In this world of salons and print culture, knowledge itself is becoming a form of power. At the center of the game is the ambitious Encyclopedie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and with contributions from dozens of leading thinkers, which aims to gather and organize all human knowledge. By championing progress through reason and science, the project provokes fierce resistance from religious authorities and royal officials. In this game, students take on the roles of philosophers, writers, scientists, nobles, clergy, and patrons in a Parisian salon, debating freedom of thought versus orthodoxy, freedom of expression versus censorship, reform versus tradition, equality versus hierarchy, human rights versus empire and slavery. Ultimately, they consider how far reason should go in challenging the political and religious order. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in Paris around 1750, The Enlightenment in Crisis places students amid the intellectual and political tension of the Enlightenment. France is Europes cultural powerhouse: Its language, fashions, and luxury goods shape tastes across the continent, and Paris draws artists, writers, and travelers from afar. Yet within this intellectual moment there lie deep contradictions. The monarchy projects strength while burdened by war debts, royal censors struggle to contain new ideas, and most ordinary peoplepeasants and urban laborerslive far from the elegant salons where elites debate philosophy. In this world of salons and print culture, knowledge itself is becoming a form of power. At the center of the game is the ambitious Encyclopedie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and with contributions from dozens of leading thinkers, which aims to gather and organize all human knowledge. By championing progress through reason and science, the project provokes fierce resistance from religious authorities and royal officials. In this game, students take on the roles of philosophers, writers, scientists, nobles, clergy, and patrons in a Parisian salon, debating freedom of thought versus orthodoxy, freedom of expression versus censorship, reform versus tradition, equality versus hierarchy, human rights versus empire and slavery. Ultimately, they consider how far reason should go in challenging the political and religious order. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Set in Paris around 1750, The Enlightenment in Crisis places students amid the intellectual and political tension of the Enlightenment. France is Europe's cultural powerhouse: Its language, fashions, and luxury goods shape tastes across the continent, and Paris draws artists, writers, and travelers from afar. Yet within this intellectual moment there lie deep contradictions. The monarchy projects strength while burdened by war debts, royal censors struggle to contain new ideas, and most ordinary people-peasants and urban laborers-live far from the elegant salons where elites debate philosophy. In this world of salons and print culture, knowledge itself is becoming a form of power. At the center of the game is the ambitious Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and with contributions from dozens of leading thinkers, which aims to gather and organize all human knowledge. By championing progress through reason and science, the project provokes fierce resistance from religious authorities and royal officials. In this game, students take on the roles of philosophers, writers, scientists, nobles, clergy, and patrons in a Parisian salon, debating freedom of thought versus orthodoxy, freedom of expression versus censorship, reform versus tradition, equality versus hierarchy, human rights versus empire and slavery. Ultimately, they consider how far reason should go in challenging the political and religious order.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Enlightenment in Crisis | Diderot's Encyclopédie in a Parisian Salon | David Eick (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | University of North Carolina Press | EAN 9781469691251 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …