Edelstein, Dan (Editor)
Voltaire Foundation
Publication date: 2010
Language: English
Physical Details: ix + 300 pp.; ill.
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? 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.
...MoreDescription Partial contents:
Review Stalnaker, Joanna (2011) Review of "The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much". American Historical Review (pp. 1206-1207).
Chapter Reill, Peter (2010) The Hermetic Imagination in the High and Late Enlightenment. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Moore, Fabienne (2010) The Poetry of the Super-Enlightenment: The Theories and Practices of Cazotte. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Pangburn, Kris (2010) Bonnet's Theory of Palingenesis: An “Enlightened” Account of Personal Resurrection?. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Edelstein, Dan (2010) The Egyptian French Revolution: Antiquarianism, Freemasonry and the Mythology of Nature. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Vardi, Liana (2010) Physiocratic Visions. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Bayer, Natalie (2010) What Do You Seek from Us? Wisdom? Virtue? Enlightenment? Inventing a Masonic Science of Man in Russia. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
Chapter Vidler, Anthony (2010) For the Love of Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the Hypnerotomachia. In: The Super-Enlightenment: Daring To Know Too Much.
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