The Style of Paris

by Huppert, George

• ISBN13: 9780253212740
• ISBN10: 025321274X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." -- Sixteenth Century Journaln his new book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied Greek and mathematics -- and they entertained subversive notions concerning religion and politics. Classically trained, they wrote, nevertheless, in French, so as to reach the widest possible audience. These young radicals fostered a succession of disciples who expressed confidence in the eventual enlightenment of humankind and whose ideas would bear fruit two centuries later.

Author Biography

GEORGE HUPPERT is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of The Idea of Perfect History: Historical Erudition and Historical Philosophy in Renaissance France, Les Bourgeois Gentilhommes: An Essay on the Definition of Elites in Renaissance France, Public Schools in Renaissance France, and After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe, 2/e.

Table of Contents

Portrait of a Discreet Philosophe	1	(20)
In Monsieur Brinon's Garden	21	(16)
A School for Scandal	37	(13)
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite	50	(11)
Historical Research in the Service of Philosophy	61	(15)
Optimi Auctores	76	(10)
Dangerous Classes	86	(12)
Ex Tenebras Lux	98	(18)
The Republic of Letters	116	(5)
Notes	121	(14)
Bibliography	135	(6)
Index	141