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Enlightenment portraits

Author: Michel Vovelle; Lydia G Cochrane
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Enlightenment Portraits permits us to see direct actors in history, people who took an active part in the collective adventures that put the human beings at the center of Western civilization's vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, and explorers, as well as soldiers and women. The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an irregular and unequal way: areas and
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michel Vovelle; Lydia G Cochrane
ISBN: 0226865681 9780226865683 0226865703 9780226865706
OCLC Number: 36170503
Description: v, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The noble / Pierre Serna -- The soldier / Jean-Paul Bertaud -- The businessman / Louis Bergeron -- The man of letters / Roger Chartier -- The man of science / Vincenzo Ferrone -- The artist / Daniel Arasse -- The explorer / Marie-Noëlle Bourguet -- The functionary / Carlo Capra -- The priest / Dominique Julia -- The woman / Dominique Godineau.
Other Titles: Uomo dell'illuminismo.
Responsibility: edited by Michel Vovelle ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
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Abstract:

Enlightenment Portraits permits us to see direct actors in history, people who took an active part in the collective adventures that put the human beings at the center of Western civilization's vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, and explorers, as well as soldiers and women. The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an irregular and unequal way: areas and environments in which new ideas penetrated and took effect alternated with shadowy patches. The fundamental structures of society may have remained stable, but new ways of producing, of being, and of appearing made sometimes abrupt headway. Attitudes toward life, birth, love, marriage and sexuality, and death had begun to change. The twilight of the Enlightenment came at the end of the eighteenth century, part of a sequence of events of which the French Revolution was simply the paroxysm.

A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows us to reflect on how nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have constructed our views on eighteenth-century people.

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