Diderot, Rousseau and the politics of the arts in the Enlightenment

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Diderot, Rousseau and the politics of the arts in the Enlightenment

Gerardo Tocchini ; translated by Martin Mclaughlin and Elisabetta Tarantino

(Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2023:01)

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-404) and index

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Description

In mid-eighteenth-century Paris, the encyclopedists launched a campaign to radically redefine the public dimension of all 'imaginative' arts, starting with music - with the querelle des bouffons - then theatre, the novel and finally the visual arts. Diderot, Rousseau and the Politics of the Arts in the Enlightenment exposes the correlation between the prejudices and hierarchies of the political and social system of the time and what d'Alembert calls 'literary superstitions'. The book reconstructs the role of Diderot and Rousseau, freres ennemis, as they engaged in a dispute that was above all else political, despite revolving entirely around forms of artistic expression. Throwing a light on this important cultural event is all the more necessary because the essentially political dimension of Diderot's Salons has since the nineteenth-century been completely obscured from view. Indeed, at first misunderstood and then totally neglected, for over two centuries their true significance has been systematically ignored by the aesthetic-idealist school of criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I: The Beginnings: Music, Theatre, the Novel Chapter 1. The problem of the theatrical Ancien regime: Musical opera Chapter 2. Stage theatre: The real substance of the dispute Chapter 3: A 'politics' of the novel and the chasm between ancient and modern Chapter 4. The function and destiny of badly written theatre Part II: The Subverters of the Artistic Culture of the Ancien regime Chapter 5: The Moment of the Fine Arts Chapter 6: Optical Illusions, and a Necessary Premise Chapter 7: Diderot and the Art of Politics for All Chapter 8: Painters and genres: norms, reality, the response of the market Chapter 9: New Spaces, Old Obligations Part III: In the Infernal Workshop of the Salons of Painting Chapter 10: Diderot, Rousseau and the 'Citizen' Artist Chapter 11: Towards a 'Politics' of the Sublime Chapter 12: The Dignity of the Masses and the Eternal 'Lie' of Allegory Chapter 13: All that Others never Wrote Part IV: Finale Chapter 14: Concluding remarks and epilogue Bibliography

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