Reading the French Enlightenment : System and Subversion - Julie Chandler Hayes

Reading the French Enlightenment

System and Subversion

By: Julie Chandler Hayes

Hardcover | 15 July 1999

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Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyzes the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Chatelet, the Abbe de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert, and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical, and ultimately liberating. Hayes examines the tensions between freedom and constraint, abstraction and materialism, linear and synoptic order, that pervade not only philosophic and scientific discourse, but also epistolary writing, fiction, and criticism. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of theorists from Adorno, Habermas, and Foucault to Deleuze and Derrida, she offers a dialogue between the eighteenth century and our own, an ongoing exploration of the question, 'what is Enlightenment?'
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"readers, especially intellectual historians of science, will find her treatment of Enlightenment text rewarding." The Historian "This is a rich and impressive study." International Studies in Philosophy, Harvey Chisick

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