Une étude sociologique des réseaux de la république des lettres au siècle des lumières, de la Russie à l'Italie en passant par la France et l'Angleterre. Les contributeurs examinent les correspondances et les communautés intellectuelles comme les salons philosophiques ou littéraires pour montrer le fonctionnement de la sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle et les implications pour les participants. ©Electre 2025
While many periods of history are popularly known by their « great men », the Enlightenment stands out for the prominence of its « great groups ». This volume assembles leading scholars using data-driven scholarship to study the networks that made the Enlightenment possible, and contributed to creating a new sense of European identity. From Voltaire's correspondence with Catherine the Great, to Adam Smith's travels on the European continent, mediated and unmediated communication networks were the lifeline of the Enlightenment. What is particularly notable about the Enlightenment is how these different networks were central to their participants' identity. One could not take part in the Enlightenment on one's own.
Although some older historical studies highlight the importance of social networks in the Enlightenment, data-driven approaches allow for a more comprehensive and granular understanding of the many different types of networks that formed the intellectual and cultural infrastructure of the Enlightenment throughout Europe. The recent influx of metadata from the correspondences of major Enlightenment figures now allows scholars to study these networks at both the micro and macro levels, and to explore the worlds of the philosophes and the « nodes » in their networks in rich detail.
It is at this intersection of Enlightenment historiography, data capture, and social network analysis that the essays collected in this volume all fall, taking advantage of new data sources, configurations, and modes of analysis to deepen our understanding of how Enlightenment sociability worked, w ho it included, and what it meant for participants.
Paru le : 21/06/2019
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Liverpool University Press
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment
Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Chloe Edmondson - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Dan Edelstein
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-1-78694-196-1
EAN13 : 9781786941961
Reliure : Broché
Pages : XII-303
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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