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Reading the French enlightenment : = system and subversion /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading the French enlightenment :/ Julie Candler Hayes.
Reminder of title:	system and subversion /
Author:	Hayes, Julie Candler,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Enlightenment - France. -
Subject:	France - Foreign relations - Germany. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485800
ISBN:	9780511485800 (ebook)

Reading the French enlightenment : = system and subversion /
Hayes, Julie Candler,1955-

Reading the French enlightenment :system and subversion /Julie Candler Hayes. - 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in French ;60. - Cambridge studies in French ;62..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: the critique of systematic reason -- 'Système': origins and itineraries -- The epistolary machine -- Physics and figuration in Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique -- Condillac and the identity of the other -- Diderot: changing the system -- Conclusion: Labyrinths of Enlightenment.

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 Châtelet, the Abbé 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?'.

ISBN: 9780511485800 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

647384
Enlightenment
--France.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

792971
France
--Foreign relations--Germany.

LC Class. No.: DC33.4 / .H38 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 194

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