Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment
Jeffrey D. Burson, "Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 0268105413 | 2019 | 600 pages | EPUB | 813 KB
English | ISBN: 0268105413 | 2019 | 600 pages | EPUB | 813 KB
Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment, account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the social and political challenges of today cry out for a more comprehensive and serviceable understanding of its importance. This book argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments proposed by scholars all share an entangled intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary "culture of enlightening" that took shape over the long-arc of intellectual history from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era. Generated in competition for a changing readership and forged in dialog and conflict, dynamic and diverse notions of what it meant to be enlightened constituted a broader culture of enlightening from which the more familiar strains of the Enlightenment emerged, often ironically and accidentally, from originally religious impulses and theological questioning.
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