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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer (Paperback)
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021:01
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Although posterity has generally known Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
for his bestselling Paul et Virginie, his output was encyclopaedic.
Using new sources, this monograph explores the many facets of a
celebrity writer in the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and the early
nineteenth century. Bernardin attracted a readership to whom,
irrespective of age, gender or social situation, he became a guide
to living. He was nominated by Louis XVI to manage the Jardin des
plantes, by Revolutionary bodies to teach at the Ecole normale and
to membership of the Institut. He deplored unquestioning adherence
to Newtonian ideas, materialistic atheism and human misdeeds in
what could be considered proto-ecological terms. He bemoaned
analytical, reductionist approaches: his philosophy placed human
beings at the centre of the universe and stressed the
interconnectedness of cosmic harmony. Bernardin learned enormously
from travel to Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean. He attacked
slavery, championed a national education system and advocated
justice for authors. Fresh information and interpretation show that
he belonged to neither the philosophe or anti-philosophe camp. A
reformist, he envisioned a regenerated France as a nation of
liberty offering asylum for refugees. This study demonstrates the
range of thought and expression of an incontournable polymath in an
age of transformation.
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