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The World of the Salons - Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Hardcover)
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The World of the Salons - Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Hardcover)
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The world of the 18th century salon has long been lauded as a
meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created
the Enlightenment. Jurgen Habermas' influential theory of the
public sphere was largely based on the salon. Based on a thorough
study of archival sources and using methodology derived from
cultural history, social history, and the history of literature,
The World of Salons proposes a completely new reading of salons'
sociability in eighteenth-century Paris. It challenges the commonly
accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the
Republic of Letters. It argues, instead, that salons were
institutions of wordly sociability, had helped shape "the world"
(le monde) and high society. They have been essential places where
the aristocratic elites of the capital met and interacted with
literary figures. These interactions based on the mastery of the
codes of polite conversation but also on the circulation of news
and of personal reputations are the subject of this book. The World
of the Salon looks at the way in which eighteenth-century social
elites redefined themselves through their practices of worldly
sociability. It highlights why some men of letters of the
Enlightenment attended the salons. Moving from the salons to
worldliness permits taking on some broader debates as well. What
relations did worldly sociability maintain with the public sphere?
How did the Parisian nobility use the idea of worldly merit and the
figure of the man of the world (homme du monde) to preserve its
social preeminence? Was the new political culture characterized by
an appeal to the public compatible with the monarchical apparatus
and with court intrigues? A shortened and revised version of the
French edition of this book, The World of the Salons is suitable
for an Anglophone audience of early modern European cultural,
political, and intellectual historians.
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