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Le Siecle de la legerete - emergences d'un paradigme du XVIIIe siecle francais (French, Paperback)
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Le Siecle de la legerete - emergences d'un paradigme du XVIIIe siecle francais (French, Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2019:04
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La France est une nation legere - ce lieu commun antique est
abondamment repris tout au long du XVIIIe siecle, temoignant de
profonds bouleversements axiologiques, scientifiques et ethiques,
dont ce volume collectif cherche a mesurer l'importance et les
enjeux, en racontant l'histoire d'un autre siecle des Lumieres :
celle d'un siecle de la Legerete. Propre aux representations que le
XVIIIe siecle francais construit de lui-meme, tant par rapport aux
siecles qui l'ont precede que dans une logique de parallele entre
les nations europeennes, la legerete du XVIIIe siecle est un
important paradigme de l'historiographie qui s'est constituee sitot
apres la Revolution. Les heritiers du XVIIIe siecle ne
reconnaissent pas seulement en lui l'age de la raison et du
progres, des Lumieres et des droits du citoyen, mais eprouvent
aussi tantot du mepris, tantot de la nostalgie pour la pretendue
legerete de ses moeurs, la futilite de ses gouts ou la frivolite de
ses enfantillages. Entre la bourgeoisie industrieuse du XIXe siecle
tirant profit des representations voluptueuses des fetes galantes
et l'interet de notre epoque celebrant l'aimable frivolite du
siecle de Marie-Antoinette, le XVIIIe siecle en sa legerete n'a
jamais cesse de seduire certes, mais aussi de questionner le recit
progressiste de la raison et de l'utilite dans la definition des
valeurs qui fondent notre communaute. Aussi importe-t-il
d'interroger les conceptions et les valeurs qui sont associees a la
notion de legerete au XVIIIe siecle, de maniere a mieux comprendre
dans quelle mesure elle a pu etre associee a la fois au caractere
de la nation francaise en general et au XVIIIe siecle en
particulier. --- The age-old cliche that France is a light-hearted
nation is echoed repeatedly throughout the eighteenth century and
bears witness to the deep axiological, scientific and ethical
upheavals which this volume explores. By analysing the importance
of, and issues at stake in, these transformations, the articles
gathered here tell the story of another age of Enlightenment: the
story of an age of lightness. Lightness is at the crux of how the
French eighteenth century represents itself both in contrast with
previous centuries and through parallels between European nations.
The concept of lightness therefore constitutes an essential
paradigm of the historiography that developed immediately after the
French Revolution. The intellectual heirs of the eighteenth century
do not only find in this period an age of reason, progress,
Enlightenment and citizens' rights; they also feel, at times,
contempt, at other times, nostalgia for the alleged lightness of
its mores, the futility of its taste or the frivolity of its
childish ways. Between the industrious bourgeoisie of the 19th
century exploiting the voluptuous representations of fetes galantes
and the fascination of our own 21st century for the delightful
frivolity of Marie-Antoinette's era, the 18th century in its
lightness has never lost its charm. Yet, crucially, it also
challenges the progressive narrative of the history of reason and
usefulness in the definition of the very values on which our
community is built. It is therefore essential to analyse the
concepts and values associated to the notion of lightness in the
18th century. Such an approach yields breakthroughs in
understanding why, and to what extent, this idea of lightness has
been related to the French national character in general as well
as, more particularly, to its 18th century.
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