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Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794 (Paperback)
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Enlightenment Virtue, 1680-1794 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:03
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In a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution
of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an
'emanation of virtue'. In adapting the concept of virtue to
Republican ends, Robespierre was drawing on traditions associated
with ancient Greece and Rome. But Republican tradition formed only
one of many strands in debates concerning virtue in France and
elsewhere in Europe, from 1680 to the Revolution. This collection
focuses on moral-philosophical and classical-republican uses of
'virtue' in this period - one that is often associated with a
'crisis of the European mind'. It also considers in what ways
debates concerning virtue involved gendered perspectives. The texts
discussed are drawn from a range of genres, from plays and novels
to treatises, memoirs, and libertine literature. They include texts
by authors such as Diderot, Laclos, and Madame de Stael, plus
other, lesser-known texts that broaden the volume's perspective.
Collectively, the contributors to the volume highlight the central
importance of virtue for an understanding of an era in which, as
Daniel Brewer argues in the closing chapter, 'the political could
not be thought outside its moral dimension, and morality could not
be separated from inevitable political consequences'.
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