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The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636-1780 (Hardcover)
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The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636-1780 (Hardcover)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been
called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator,
translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the
world. The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way
that the work as a whole is offered as a gallery of portraits
leading from one kind of cultural understanding to another and then
another... Geographically, the range is broadly European (England,
France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Switzerland)
though the aim is never to display how national identities arose.
Nor is this range a matter of 'covering' the field. The figures
treated were all important in their own right, and yet too often
they receive scholarly attention only in passing. The singular
identity studied here, if there is one, could be Europe's, but the
theme emphasized now and then is also that of the
'internationalization' of intellectual activity in a very long
eighteenth century. The bookend chapters involving the
understanding of the Orient reinforce the internationalization and
the fostering of a European identity. The volume aims less to
highlight or track specific ideas transported from one cultural
context to another, though there are necessarily many examples
given. It proposes instead to illustrate the evolution of
post-humanist cultural activity in Europe, by beginning with a
series of studies in which debate arises from religious positions
(not only Protestant, but Muslim, Catholic, Jesuit, Jansenist and
Jewish traditions) and closing with debate become philosophical and
encyclopedic. As such, the volume documents a characteristic view
of the transformation of early modern intellectual activity as its
center moves from religion to philosophy; and it thereby draws
special attention to the essays in the middle of the volume. These
deal with figures active towards the end of the 17th and the
beginning of the 18th centuries, and their abilities, difficulties
and conflicts in finding new spaces for intellectual life outside
of religious and political institutions-in public discussions of
philosophy, toleration, journalism, law and the curious
spatialization we refer to as Anglophilia.
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