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The Enlightenment in practice : academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794
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- Creator
- Jeremy L. Caradonna
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 333 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1322504911, 0801450608, 0801463904, 9780801463907, 0801464374, 9780801450600, 9780801464379
- OCLC
- ocn979740506, ocn752910614, ocn781378105
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-323) and index.
- The rebirth of the concours académique: cultural politics and the domestication of letters in the age of Louis XIV -- À la recherche du concours académique -- The participatory Enlightenment -- Dijon revisited: Rousseau's first discourse from the perspective of the concours académique -- The concours académique, political culture, and the critical public sphere -- The practical Enlightenment: the concours académique, the state, and the pursuit of expertise -- Prize contests in the revolutionary crucible: decline and regeneration -- Conclusion: the Enlightenment in question
- The rebirth of the concours académique : cultural politics and the domestication of letters in the age of Louis XIV -- À la recherche du concours académique -- The participatory Enlightenment -- Dijon revisited : Rousseau's first discourse from the perspective of the concours académique -- The concours académique, political culture, and the formation of the critical public sphere -- The practical Enlightenment : the concours académique, the state, and the pursuit of expertise -- Prize contests in the revolutionary crucible : decline and regeneration -- Conclusion : the Enlightenment in question
Subjects
- Literature -- Competitions -- France -- History -- 17th century.
- Literature -- Competitions -- France -- History -- 18th century.
- Literary prizes -- France -- History -- 17th century.
- Literary prizes -- France -- History -- 18th century.
- Enlightenment -- France.
- France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.