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Culture of Enlightening - Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Culture of Enlightening - Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment,
account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance
suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the
social and political challenges of today cry out for a more
comprehensive and serviceable understanding of its importance. This
book argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical
Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious
enlightenments proposed by scholars all share an entangled
intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary "culture
of enlightening" that took shape over the long-arc of intellectual
history from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to
the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era. Generated in
competition for a changing readership and forged in dialog and
conflict, dynamic and diverse notions of what it meant to be
enlightened constituted a broader culture of enlightening from
which the more familiar strains of the Enlightenment emerged, often
ironically and accidentally, from originally religious impulses and
theological questioning. By adapting, for the first time,
methodological insights from the scholarship of historical
entanglement (l'histoire croisée) to the study of the
Enlightenment, this book provides a new interpretation of the
European republic of letters from the late 1600s through the 1700s
by focusing on the lived experience of the long-neglected Catholic
theologian, historian, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie,
Abbé Claude Yvon. The ambivalent historical memory of Yvon, as
well as the eclectic and global array of his sources and endeavors,
Burson argues, can serve as a gauge for evaluating historical
transformations in the surprisingly diverse ways in which
eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human
reason, religion, and society. Ultimately, Burson provocatively
claims that even the most radical fruits of the Enlightenment can
be understood as the unintended offspring of a revolution in
theology and the cultural history of religious experience.
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