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Rhetoric and Natural History
This book examines the rhetorical dimension of eighteenth-century natural history. It focuses on the French naturalist and literary stylist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, author …
Money and political economy in the Enlightenment
The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreement on this issue was formed in …
Joseph De Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment
Although Joseph de Maistre has long been regarded as characterising the Counter-Enlightenment, his intellectual relationship to eighteenth-century philosophy remains unexplored. In …
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808
Iran and a French Empire of Trade examines the understudied topic of Franco-Persian relations in the long eighteenth century to highlight how rising tensions among Eurasian empires …
Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge
The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In …
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, 'Les Monades'
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly …
Les Lumières Imaginaires
Dans les années 1760, l’atelier du baron d’Holbach est, avec Ferney au temps de Voltaire, le principal lieu de diffusion des idées hétérodoxes qui permettent la radicalisation des …
Le Métier de Journaliste au XVIIIe Siècle
Malgré toutes les recherches consacrées aux Lumières françaises, il reste bien des trésors à découvrir, surtout si l’on pousse la prospection dans les terrains dédaignés (ou …
Queen of the World
Scholarly understanding of the notion of public opinion in France has suffered, and suffers still, from some serious misconceptions. Chief of these is the belief that its …
La Bible dans la Correspondance de Voltaire
La place de la Bible dans la correspondance de Voltaire a été jusqu'à présent largement sous-estimée: si les citations sont le plus souvent aisément repérables, les allusions et …
Ruins Past
In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the remains of the past dominated the …
Voltaire et l'écriture de l'histoire
Bien qu’il participe à une redéfinition de la pratique historiographique à l’Age classique, on s’est peu interrogé sur l’art de ‘Voltaire l’historien’, et on a souvent résumé sa …