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Title: READING THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
SYSTEM AND SUBVERSION
By: Julie Candler Hayes, Michael Sheringham
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 052103096X
ISBN 13: 9780521030960
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 29 August, 2006
Series: Cambridge Studies in French v. 60
Pages: 260
Description: This 1999 book is an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse.
Synopsis: In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyses the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Chatelet, the Abbe de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical and ultimately liberating. Hayes examines the tensions between freedom and constraint, abstraction and materialism, linear and synoptic order, that pervade not only philosophic and scientific discourse, but also epistolary writing, fiction and criticism. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of theorists from Adorno, Habermas and Foucault to Deleuze and Derrida, she offers a dialogue between the eighteenth century and our own, an ongoing exploration of the question, 'what is Enlightenment?'.
Illustrations: 1 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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