The culture of enlightening : Abbé Claude Yvon and the entangled emergence of the Enlightenment

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The culture of enlightening : Abbé Claude Yvon and the entangled emergence of the Enlightenment

Jeffrey D. Burson

University of Notre Dame Press, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-559) and index

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Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment, account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the social and political challenges of today cry out for a more comprehensive and serviceable understanding of its importance. This book argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments proposed by scholars all share an entangled intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary "culture of enlightening" that took shape over the long-arc of intellectual history from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era. Generated in competition for a changing readership and forged in dialog and conflict, dynamic and diverse notions of what it meant to be enlightened constituted a broader culture of enlightening from which the more familiar strains of the Enlightenment emerged, often ironically and accidentally, from originally religious impulses and theological questioning. By adapting, for the first time, methodological insights from the scholarship of historical entanglement (l'histoire croisee) to the study of the Enlightenment, this book provides a new interpretation of the European republic of letters from the late 1600s through the 1700s by focusing on the lived experience of the long-neglected Catholic theologian, historian, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopedie, Abbe Claude Yvon. The ambivalent historical memory of Yvon, as well as the eclectic and global array of his sources and endeavors, Burson argues, can serve as a gauge for evaluating historical transformations in the surprisingly diverse ways in which eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society. Ultimately, Burson provocatively claims that even the most radical fruits of the Enlightenment can be understood as the unintended offspring of a revolution in theology and the cultural history of religious experience.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Culture of Enlightening en Sorbonne and the Formation of Claude Yvon Into the Mid-Century Maelstrom: Claude Yvon between Sorbonne and the Encyclopedistes The Encyclopedie and the Polarization of Enlightening Culture in France Part 2. Yvon the Encyclopediste I: Metphysics, Logic, and the History of Philosophy Yvon the Encyclopediste II: Immortality, Immateriality, and an Abbe's Dalliance with Vitalistic Materialism Yvon the Encyclopediste III: Moral Philosophy, Practical Theology, and the Problem of Evil Part 3. Yvon in Exile, 1752-1762 The Return from Exile, c. 1762-1768 The Quest to Harmonize Philosophy and Religion: The First Attempt, 1762-1768 Out of the Ashes?: Yvon at Chateau d'Ormes, c. 1771-1774 From Yvon's Last Stand before the General Assembly of the Clergy to His Last Days, c. 1770-1789 Yvon Post-Mortem: Concluding Reflections on the Cultural and Theological Revolution of Enlightening List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography

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