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Calvet's Web

Name: Calvet's Web
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04530186
Price: 315.59 EUR
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Author: Laurence Brockliss
ISBN: 9780199247486

Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

Laurence Brockliss

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04530186

Publishers Oxford University Press, July 2002

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Libristo code: 04530186

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"Calvet's Web" is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores for the first time in detail the intellectual interests and relationships of a representative sample of the French Republic of Letters. He traces the destruction of the Republic during the Revolution, and its reconstruction, in different guise, under Napoleon. "Calvet's Web" is an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the history of collecting, and the history of the book. In addition, by examining the circle's attitude to the philosophies and their programme of material and moral progress, it offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.