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Jack R. Censer is Professor Emeritus of History at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of several books on the French Old Regime and Revolution, including Prelude to Power (l976; reissued 2019), The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment (1994) and, with Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution and Napoleon (2022; 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Academic). He has also explored the modern press in On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper (2010). His most recent work is Debating Modern Revolution (2016, Bloomsbury Academic).PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6
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This volume of A Cultural History of Ideas focuses on the culture of the Enlightenment, long believed a time of enormous intellectual innovation and ferment. However elusive the precise connection between ideas and culture in this period, the emergent mixture resonated throughout the West and beyond.
This volume features essays by ten eminent scholars who consider nine different areas of intellectual investigation: knowledge, concepts of self, society and ethics, economics and politics, nature and natural law, religion, literature, the arts, and history. In all of these areas, Enlightenment culture meant the development of modern values sharply at odds with the Old Regime in which they were embedded.
These essays, with their many connections, reveal Enlightenment ideas and cultural innovations as products of a world expanded and rethought in the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a result of enhanced trade and exploration, new notions of sociability, a media revolution, and major political and economic developments.
The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
General Editor’s Preface, Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck
Introduction, Jack R. Censer and Gary Kates
1. Knowledge, Chad Wellmon
2. The Human Self, Howard G. Brown
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Sara Maza
4. Politics and Economies, Gary Kates
5. Nature, Brian W. Ogilvie
6. Religion and the Divine, Jonathan Sheehan
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Christy Pichichero
8. The Arts, Douglas Fordham
9. History, Caroline Winterer
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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