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Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed ‘illuminist’, and better-known forms of Enlightenment thinking and culture. But where are the boundaries of ‘enlightened’ human understanding?<br/> This is the question posed by contributors to this volume, who put forward a completely new way of configuring these seemingly antithetical currents of thought, and identify a grey area that binds the two, a ‘Super-Enlightenment’. Through articles exploring the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific dimensions of the Super-Enlightenment, contributors demonstrate the co-existence of apparent opposites: the enlightened and the esoteric, empiricism and imagination, history and myth, the secretive and the public, mysticism and science. The Enlightenment can no longer be seen as a sturdy, homogeneous movement defined by certain core beliefs, but one which oscillates between opposing poles in its social practices, historiography and even its epistemology: between daring to know, and daring to know too much.<br/><br/> Dan Edelstein, Introduction to the Super-Enlightenment <br/> I. What limits of understanding? <br/> Peter Reill, The hermetic imagination in the high and late Enlightenment <br/> David Bates, Super-epistemology <br/> Jessica Riskin, Mr Machine and the imperial me <br/> II. The arts of knowing <br/> Liana Vardi, Physiocratic visions <br/> Anthony Vidler, For the love of architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the <em>Hypnerotomachia</em> <br/> Fabienne Moore, The poetry of the Super-Enlightenment: the theories and practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville <br/> III. Sacred societies <br/> Natalie Bayer, What do you seek from us? Wisdom? Virtue? Enlightenment? Inventing a Masonic science of man in Russia <br/> Kris Pangburn, Bonnet’s theory of palingenesis: an ‘Enlightened’ account of personal resurrection? <br/> Dan Edelstein, The Egyptian French Revolution: antiquarianism, Freemasonry and the mythology of nature <br/> Tili Boon Cuillé, From myth to religion in Ossian’s France <br/> Summaries <br/> Bibliography <br/> Index <br/>
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oxford-uuid:3fdf089c-20ae-4017-aed2-512615bc798d2022-03-26T14:34:38ZThe Super-EnlightenmentBookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33uuid:3fdf089c-20ae-4017-aed2-512615bc798dEnglishVoltaire FoundationVoltaire Foundation2017Edelstein, DHistorians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed ‘illuminist’, and better-known forms of Enlightenment thinking and culture. But where are the boundaries of ‘enlightened’ human understanding?<br/> This is the question posed by contributors to this volume, who put forward a completely new way of configuring these seemingly antithetical currents of thought, and identify a grey area that binds the two, a ‘Super-Enlightenment’. Through articles exploring the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific dimensions of the Super-Enlightenment, contributors demonstrate the co-existence of apparent opposites: the enlightened and the esoteric, empiricism and imagination, history and myth, the secretive and the public, mysticism and science. The Enlightenment can no longer be seen as a sturdy, homogeneous movement defined by certain core beliefs, but one which oscillates between opposing poles in its social practices, historiography and even its epistemology: between daring to know, and daring to know too much.<br/><br/> Dan Edelstein, Introduction to the Super-Enlightenment <br/> I. What limits of understanding? <br/> Peter Reill, The hermetic imagination in the high and late Enlightenment <br/> David Bates, Super-epistemology <br/> Jessica Riskin, Mr Machine and the imperial me <br/> II. The arts of knowing <br/> Liana Vardi, Physiocratic visions <br/> Anthony Vidler, For the love of architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the <em>Hypnerotomachia</em> <br/> Fabienne Moore, The poetry of the Super-Enlightenment: the theories and practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville <br/> III. Sacred societies <br/> Natalie Bayer, What do you seek from us? Wisdom? Virtue? Enlightenment? Inventing a Masonic science of man in Russia <br/> Kris Pangburn, Bonnet’s theory of palingenesis: an ‘Enlightened’ account of personal resurrection? <br/> Dan Edelstein, The Egyptian French Revolution: antiquarianism, Freemasonry and the mythology of nature <br/> Tili Boon Cuillé, From myth to religion in Ossian’s France <br/> Summaries <br/> Bibliography <br/> Index <br/>
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