The Idea Of The Sciences In The French Enlightenment
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Bernard de Fontenelle
Author | : Leonard Mendes Marsak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39076006305002 |
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The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment
Author | : G. Matthew Adkins |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2013-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611494754 |
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This book challenges common historical misperceptions of both the history of the sciences in early modern France and the history of the French Enlightenment. By reexamining the moral, political, and social ideas of those who defended the ascendency of the sciences, this book demonstrates the evolution of political views.
The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment
Author | : G. Matthew Adkins |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2013-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781644530658 |
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This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and their associates from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century. Academy secretaries such as Fontenelle and Condorcet were critical to the emergence of a central feature of the narrative of Enlightenment in that they encouraged the notion that the “philosophical spirit” of the Scientific Revolution, already present among the educated classes, should guide the necessary reformation of society and government according to the ideals of scientific reasoning. The Idea of the Sciences also tells an intellectual history of political radicalization, explaining especially how the marquis de Condorcet came to believe that the sciences could play central a role in guiding the outcome of the Revolution of 1789. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Science and Humanism in the French Enlightenment
Author | : Aram Vartanian |
Publsiher | : Rookwood Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : 1886365113 |
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Vartanian (1922-97) offered this set of three essays to the series editors just before he died and had no opportunity to write a general introduction explaining the direction they take. However, they were deemed to be a major contribution to the study of the French Enlightenment and are presented as
The Time of Enlightenment
Author | : William Max Nelson |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781487536787 |
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A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present. The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.
The Faith of Reason
Author | : Charles Frankel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4385603 |
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A study of the evolution and relevant social context of philosophical ideas on progress, science, nature, and metaphysical faith of reason. Specifically examines the views on progress of Descartes and Pascal in the seventeenth century, the views and influences of French philosophers during the eighteenth century Enlightenment, the use of essential elements in the Cartesian ideas of science and progress, and the relationship of science to society and morals. Includes analysis of philosophers such as Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Turgot, Condillac, Rousseau, Fontenelle, and Condorcet.
The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
Author | : K. Gavroglu |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789401147705 |
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The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.
The Idea of Science in the French Enlightenment
Author | : Barbara Kantner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : OCLC:43274519 |
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