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Enlightenment Portraits (Paperback)
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Enlightenment Portraits (Paperback)
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"Enlightenment Portraits" permits us to see direct actors in
history, people who took an active part in the collective
adventures that put the human being at the center of Western
civilizations vision of the world: nobles, priests, functionaries,
men of letters, artists, and explorers, also soldiers and women.
The Enlightenment's leading figures cast their light in an
irregular and unequal way: areas and environments in which new
ideas penetrated and took effect alternated with shadowy patches.
The fundamental structures of society may have remained stable, but
new ways of producing, of being, and of appearing made sometimes
abrupt headway. Attitudes toward life, birth, love, marriage and
sexuality, and death had begun to change.
The twilight of the Enlightenment came at the end of the eighteenth
century, part of a sequence of events of which the French
Revolutions was simply the paroxysm.
A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows
contemporary readers to reflect on how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century scholars have constructed their views on
eighteenth-century man.
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