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Au XXIe siecle, l'Europe ne fait plus rever: son modele est
conteste, tant sur le plan economique qu'intellectuel et politique.
Face a ces desillusions, il est urgent d'interroger les origines de
l'idee d'Europe: quand et comment la notion d'Europe s'est-elle
definie? L'ouvrage dirige par Antoine Lilti et Celine Spector
propose un detour par les Lumieres. Si l'Europe peut s'enorgueillir
d'une longue histoire, c'est bien au XVIIIe siecle qu'elle est
devenue un enjeu philosophique, historique et politique majeur. De
Montesquieu a Kant, de Voltaire a Burke ou a Robertson, l'idee
d'Europe est au coeur des controverses sur le droit international
comme sur l'economie politique, sur la legitimite de l'expansion
coloniale comme sur les espoirs d'un monde pacifie. Veritable
enquete collective conduite par des historiens et des philosophes,
Penser l'Europe au XVIIIe siecle aborde trois elements majeurs
autour desquels gravite le concept naissant d'Europe: l'empire, le
commerce et la civilisation. Apres avoir decrit la maniere dont
l'ordre europeen a ete concu, les auteurs examinent la question de
l'expansion commerciale et coloniale de l'Europe, ainsi que les
theories de la civilisation, qui permettent d'interroger le statut
de l'exceptionnalisme europeen. Le siecle des Lumieres ne nous
presente pas un ideal europeen a ressusciter, mais un champ
d'interrogations dont nous ne sommes jamais veritablement sortis.
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study
and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from
1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we
recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing
in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two
countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal
work, The Invention of Celebrity, translated into English in 2017.
With contributions from a diverse range of scholarly cultures, the
volume has a firmly interdisciplinary scope over the time period
1750 to 1850, which was an era marked by social, political, and
cultural upheaval. Bringing together the fields of history,
politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume
employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked
by social, political, and cultural upheaval. The organization of
the collection allows for new readings of the similarities and
differences in the understanding of celebrity in Britain and
France. Consequently, the volume builds upon the questions that are
currently at the heart of celebrity studies.
The world of the 18th century salon has long been lauded as a
meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created
the Enlightenment. Jurgen Habermas' influential theory of the
public sphere was largely based on the salon. Based on a thorough
study of archival sources and using methodology derived from
cultural history, social history, and the history of literature,
The World of Salons proposes a completely new reading of salons'
sociability in eighteenth-century Paris. It challenges the commonly
accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the
Republic of Letters. It argues, instead, that salons were
institutions of wordly sociability, had helped shape "the world"
(le monde) and high society. They have been essential places where
the aristocratic elites of the capital met and interacted with
literary figures. These interactions based on the mastery of the
codes of polite conversation but also on the circulation of news
and of personal reputations are the subject of this book. The World
of the Salon looks at the way in which eighteenth-century social
elites redefined themselves through their practices of worldly
sociability. It highlights why some men of letters of the
Enlightenment attended the salons. Moving from the salons to
worldliness permits taking on some broader debates as well. What
relations did worldly sociability maintain with the public sphere?
How did the Parisian nobility use the idea of worldly merit and the
figure of the man of the world (homme du monde) to preserve its
social preeminence? Was the new political culture characterized by
an appeal to the public compatible with the monarchical apparatus
and with court intrigues? A shortened and revised version of the
French edition of this book, The World of the Salons is suitable
for an Anglophone audience of early modern European cultural,
political, and intellectual historians.
The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a
meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created
the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine
Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in
eighteenth-century Paris. Drawing on cultural history, social
history, and the history of literature, he challenges the commonly
accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the
Republic of Letters. Lilti argues, instead, that salons were
institutions of worldly sociability that helped shape "the world"
(le monde) and high society. They were essential places where the
aristocratic elites of the capital met and interacted with literary
figures. Attending them required a mastery of the codes of polite
conversation. There news circulated and personal reputations were
made and lost. As opposed to the salon being a realm separate from
the court at Versailles, it was a site where elites gained enough
influence to forge marital alliances, secure government
appointments or pensions, and win over royal censors. These
discussion circles were part of refined society, not public
opinion, and those writers who gained mass appeal were shunned by
salon-goers. For those who think they know what the salon meant in
early modern European culture, politics, and intellectual circles,
Antoine Lilti's The World of the Salons offers an important
corrective of what went on behind the closed doors of the French
salons.
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