Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009249096 | 257 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this new edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography, originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu's thought and a synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda.

Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment: Theories, Practices, and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367137062 | 237 Pages | PDF (True) | 8.3 MB
Combining contextual, institutional and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment.

From the Ruins of Enlightenment
by Richard Kramer;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0226821633 | 266 pages | True PDF EPUB | 31.91 MB

Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature By Mehl Allan Penrose
2014 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1472422260 | PDF | 3 MB
In Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, Mehl Allan Penrose examines three distinct male figures, each of which was represented as the Other in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The most common configuration of non-normative men was the petimetre, an effeminate, Francophile male who figured a failed masculinity, a dubious sexuality, and an invasive French cultural presence. Also inscribed within cultural discourse were the bujarrón or 'sodomite,' who participates in sexual relations with men, and the Arcadian shepherd, who expresses his desire for other males and who takes on agency as the voice of homoerotica. Analyzing journalistic essays, poetry, and drama, Penrose shows that Spanish authors employed queer images of men to engage debates about how males should appear, speak, and behave and whom they should love in order to be considered 'real' Spaniards. Penrose interrogates works by a wide range of writers, including Luis Cañuelo, Ramón de la Cruz, and Félix MarÃa de Samaniego, arguing that the tropes created by these authors solidified the gender and sexual binary and defined and described what a 'queer' man was in the Spanish collective imaginary. Masculinity and Queer Desire engages with current cultural, historical, and theoretical scholarship to propose the notion that the idea of queerness in gender and sexuality based on identifiable criteria started in Spain long before the medical concept of the 'homosexual' was created around 1870.

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From Rococo to Industrial

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series) By Mark Curran
2012 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0861933168 | PDF | 9 MB

Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031052250 | 491 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.32 MB
This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "Enlightenment rationalism." The subjects of the volume (including, among others, Pascal, Vico, Schmitt, Weber, Anscombe, Scruton, and Tolkien) do not share a philosophical tradition as much as a skeptical disposition toward the notion, common among modern thinkers, that there is only one standard of rationality or reasonableness, and that that one standard is or ought to be taken from the presuppositions, methods, and logic of the natural sciences.

Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History) By James Van Horn Melton (editor)
2002 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0754605485 | EPUB | 8 MB
Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century, this volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examines some of the structures, practices and media of communication that helped shape the social, cultural, and political history of the period. Not surprisingly, print was an important focal point, but it was only one medium through which individuals and institutions constructed publics and communicated with an audience. Religious iconography and ritual, sermons, music, civic architecture, court ceremony, street gossip, acts of violence, are also forms of communication explored in the volume. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and scholarly backgrounds, this volume transcends narrow specializations and will be of interest to a broad range of academics seeking to understand the social, political and cultural consequences of the "information revolution" of Reformation Europe.

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Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 0226817911 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds.