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Diderot, Philosopher of Energy
The title of this work may seem to beg an important question, since it rests on the assumption that Diderot has a ‘concept of physical energy’. Indeed the aim of the study is, in …
Political Academy in Paris, 1724 - 1731
The Entresol has been described as the most significant intellectual organisation in France in the first half of the eighteenth century. Its meetings in the 1720s were attented by …
Correspondance de Pierre Bayle: 1706-1732, Lettres 1742-1791: Volume 14
Espaces du féminin dans le roman français du dix-huitième siècle
Des jardins de Félonde dans le Pharsamon de Marivaux à l’Elysée de Julie dans La Nouvelle Héloïse, le roman du dix-huitième siècle semble avoir accordé une place éminente à des …
L'Invention du sentiment
Comment s’est créé le concept psychologique et esthétique du ‘sentiment’ tel qu’on le connaît dans la littérature du dix-huitième siècle? Tracer la transformation de la terrible …
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The most momentous natural disasters are not necessarily those with the most victims, but rather those producing the greatest shockwaves in intellectual history. The Lisbon …
Madame de Graffigny and Rousseau
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 …
The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
This collection of eighty-nine letters written by Parisian and other European map publishers to the London map firm of Jefferys & Faden represents one of the few business archives …
Correspondance: 1716-1739 - Lettres 1-144 v. 1
The Maurists' Unfinished Encyclopedia
In this groundbreaking study, Linn Holmberg provides new perspectives on the Enlightenment ‘dictionary wars’ and offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual reorientation of …
The Enlightenment and the rights of man
The Enlightenment redefined the ethics of the rights of man as part of an outlook that was based on reason, the equality of all nations and races, and man’s self-determination. …
