Shaping Newtonianism: The Intersection of Knowledge Claims in Eighteenth-Century Greek Intellectual Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Manolis Patiniotis
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Knowledge Claims

The Romance of the Forest

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Radcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe’s later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey’s proprietor, a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finally force her to contemplate escape to distant regions. Rich in allusions to aesthetic theory and to travel literature, The Romance of the Forest is also concerned with current philosophical debate and examines systems of thought central to the intellectual life of late eighteenth-century Europe.

Female Emancipation

2013 ◽  
pp. 216-256
Author(s):  
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Full Force

This chapter addresses the female emancipatory activity of enlightened Jewish women. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, the main efforts to challenge male hegemony and improve women's position in society were not channelled towards achieving political equality. Women with a feminist awareness chose to act in areas where more practical and immediate achievements could be envisaged, and this was the approach adopted by enlightened Jewish women. Like many other contemporary women with feminist concerns, they saw the broadening of their educational horizons in emancipatory terms, as a precondition for improving their overall position, and they made determined attempts to extend their knowledge, at the same time as criticizing attempts to exclude them from intellectual life. Another area in which these Jewish women struggled for emancipation, having experienced personally the full force of male privilege and domination, was their private life. Equipped with the critical spirit of the Enlightenment, they turned their gaze on the patriarchal institution of marriage as a prominent focus of inequality and grappled with questions related to marriage, divorce, and independence.

scholarly journals Esclarecimento e educação em Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) / Enlightenment and education in Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Karine Biasotto
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Precise Moment

O presente artigo trata do pensamento de Kant sobre a questão pedagógica. O objetivo consiste em apresentar o conceito de Iluminismo elaborado pelo intelectual e relacioná-lo com o seu pensamento no que diz respeito a educação. Para isso foram utilizados os ensaios: Resposta à pergunta: que é o Iluminismo e Sobre a Pedagogia. O primeiro é uma reflexão sobre o contexto social da Europa do século XVIII e suas consequências para a vida intelectual desse momento histórico. Já o segundo, trata-se de uma reunião de notas elaboradas por Kant e organizadas por seu discípulo Rink. Fortemente influenciadas por Rousseau, essas notas apresentam o pensamento kantiano por um longo período e destacam a questão da liberdade, do progresso e da autonomia a fim de educar um ser moral. A partir disso é possível perceber a influência daquilo que o autor entende como Iluminismo no processo de formação do homem, que para ele inicia desde muito cedo, quando a criança nasce, e se mantém até a juventude, sem um momento preciso para conclusão. Desse modo se torna evidente a atualidade do pensamento de Kant principalmente sobre o quão fundamental é aprender a pensar por si e assim fazer um bom uso da liberdade, caminhar para o progresso com fim na moralidade.  * * *This article discuss the Kant's thought regarding to the pedagogical question. The aim consist in show the concept of Enlightenment elaborated by the intellectual and relate to his thought about education. Therefore, was used the essays: An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment and On Pedagogy. The first is a reflection on the social context of eighteenth-century in Europe and its consequences for the intellectual life. The second, it is a combination of notes elaborated by Kant and organized by his disciple Rink. Strongly influenced by Rousseau, the notes are based on the thinking for a long period and priorize the question of freedom, the progress and the auton-omy of a moral being. From this, it is possible realize the influence of that what the author understand as Enlightenment during the process of humani-ty formation that for him begins when the children born, and keep during the youth, without a precise moment to the conclusion. In this way became evi-dent the currentness of Kant's thought, especially to show how fundamental is learn to think for oneself and thus make a good use of freedom, to walk to progress with finality on the morality.

What is Prosveshchenie? Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers Revisited

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Colum Leckey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Broad Context ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Unusual Combination ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
Russian Intellectual History

AbstractScholars have long regarded Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers as an essential source for eighteenth-century Russia's literary and intellectual life. Beyond providing valuable information on hundreds of authors, the Dictionary also clarifies the meaning of enlightenment (prosveshchenie) for Novikov and his generation. This article examines the Dictionary's application and understanding of prosveshchenie in the broad context of Russian intellectual history. For Novikov, prosveshchenie bore little similarity to the skeptical and critical spirit of the European Enlightenment. Instead, it represented an unusual combination of religious piety, erudition, and commitment to the spread of learning—the same ideals Novikov would promote as a Freemason and pass on to the nineteenth-century intelligentsia.

THE ORDER OF BOOKS REVISITED

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROGER CHARTIER
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Do So

The Order of Books was published in France in 1992 and translated into English in 1994. I have to confess that I had not reread it since, and perhaps I would have never read it again had I not been invited to do so for this exercise. The central aim of that book was to try to understand something of how in the period between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century the written word was classified, organized, and perceived by all the actors involved within the trajectory of the text, from authors to publishers and printers, from the printing shop to the library. I will begin by recounting some of the factors in my own intellectual life that I believe led up to that book, and go on to reflect on the arguments that I posited in 1992, in the hope of giving some account of the ways in which that earlier work might today be supplemented.

POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE STATE, AND REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-444
Author(s):  
ANDREW JAINCHILL
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The French Revolution

Among the stunning changes in material and intellectual life that transformed eighteenth-century Europe, perhaps none excited as much contemporary consternation as the twin-headed growth of a modern commercial economy and the fiscal–military state. As economies became increasingly based on trade, money, and credit, and states both exploded in size and forged seemingly insoluble ties to the world of finance, intellectuals displayed growing anxiety about just what kind of political, economic, and social order was taking shape before their eyes. Two important new books by Michael Sonenscher and John Shovlin, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution and The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution, tackle these apprehensions and the roles they played in forging French political and economic writings in the second half of the eighteenth century. Both authors also take the further step of demonstrating the impact of the ideas they study on the origins of the French Revolution.

Knowledge, Weakness, and Narrative in the Late Eighteenth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-128
Author(s):  
Cameron B. Strang
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Flow Of Information

This chapter covers intellectual life among European, native, and African-descended peoples in the Gulf South from the 1760s to the 1790s. Spain had sovereignty from Florida to Louisiana during this period, yet Spaniards were also one of many groups in the region that were too weak to control the flow of information or reliably benefit from it. The chapter’s first two sections analyze how Spanish officials struggled to understand the region and use its resources to bolster imperial power. The three following cases concern, respectively, the trial of enslaved blacks accused of poisoning an overseer, the efforts of a Florida planter to control the circulation of botanical knowledge, and a mineralogical expedition in which a Hitchiti Indian shaped scientific knowledge through monster stories. All of these individuals packaged knowledge in narratives that reflected and perpetuated the crossing of cultural boundaries.

Gentle Labour: Jesuit Georgic in the Age of Louis XIV

Loyola's Bees ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Annabel Haskell
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
The World ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Classical Style

René Rapin, the father of Jesuit georgic poetry, manoeuvred his intellectual life between the ancients and the moderns with an instinct for conciliation and compromise that made him an effective apostle to the world. He is best remembered for his Horti, a classical-style didactic poem in four books that celebrated the victory of the moderns over the ancients in horticultural art. His poem, which is secular in appearance, is motivated by (mildly concealed) religion and Jesuito-political impulses, and cultural and literary impulses, particularly those of Virgil. This chapter discusses some of the developments in the Italian Renaissance georgic poetry to better understand Rapin's contribution to the early modern Latin georgic. It considers the latter Latin poems on horticulture and sericulture, which bear resemblance to the ancient model yet are considerably shorter than Virgil's. These latter georgic poems predicated on a Nature that is mild and marvellous, and centred on the artistic manipulation of Nature. In the Italian Renaissance, the ‘recreational georgics’ were dominated by pastoral ease, which is ironic, given the prominent thematic of labour in the original georgics. While the georgics were poems that celebrated nature and labour in gardens, by the turn of the eighteenth century, French Jesuits had identified the didactic genre of georgics as a flexible medium for exhibiting their modern Latinity and advertising their honnêteté.

Marshall Hall, F. R. S. (1790-1857), a conspectus of his life and work

1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-166 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Older Brothers ◽  
Standards Of Conduct ◽  
High Sense

Marshall Hall was born on 18 February 1790 at Basford near Nottingham, the sixth of eight children of Robert Hall, a cottonmanufacturer and bleacher. Like many other late eighteenth-century entrepreneurs— bankers, iron-masters, traders and merchant clothiers— Robert Hall was a dissenter. He belonged to the Methodists and had been personally acquainted with John Wesley (1). Unlike his older brothers, Marshall Hall never joined the Wesleyans, although he remained an avowed Christian throughout his life. Nevertheless, the more sober standards of conduct and morality which marked the life-style of evangelicals, or Bible people as they were called, would have been part of H all’s early background and they made an enduring impression on him. Throughout his life, Hall’s personality and character were marked by seriousness, conscientiousness (2), self-discipline and self-respect, a high sense of duty and, it could be added, something of an air of self-righteousness. As Methodists, Hall’s family was not associated with those evangelicals who remained within the Anglican Church and who regarded the Methodists as conspicuously ill-bred and unworldly. Many of these establishment evangelicals, including the Clapham Sect, were socially well placed and their homes provided a particularly stimulating atmosphere for their children (3). It is not surprising that some of these offspring went on to become leading figures in the public and intellectual life of Victorian England.

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