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  • Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature

    ISSN: 1074-6781

    "Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "

    3 publications

  • Title: The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment

    Critique, Myth, Utopia- Proceedings of the Symposium arranged by the Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Helsinki, 17-18 October 2008
    by Charlotta Wolff (Volume editor) Timo Kaitaro (Volume editor) Minna Ahokas (Volume editor)
    ©2012 Conference proceedings
  • Title: Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment

    Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment

    Anarchists and the French Revolution, 1880-1914
    by C. Alexander McKinley (Author)
    ©2008 Monographs
  • Title: Shaping Enlightenment Politics

    Shaping Enlightenment Politics

    The Social and Political Impact of the First and Third Earls of Shaftesbury
    by Patrick Müller (Volume editor) 2018
    ©2018 Conference proceedings
  • Title: The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture

    The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture

    Greed, Hate, Star Wars, and Star Trek
    by George A. Gonzalez (Author) 2024
    ©2024 Prompt
  • Title: Religion and the Enlightenment - 1600-1800

    Religion and the Enlightenment - 1600-1800

    Conflict and the Rise of Civic Humanism in Taunton
    by William Gibson (Author)
    ©2007 Monographs
  • Title: Between Enlightenment and Disaster

    Between Enlightenment and Disaster

    Dimensions of the political Use of Knowledge
    by Linda Sangolt (Volume editor) 2011
    ©2010 Edited Collection
  • Title: The Enterprise of Enlightenment

    The Enterprise of Enlightenment

    A Tribute to David Williams from his Friends
    by Terry Pratt (Volume editor) David McCallam (Volume editor)
    ©2004 Others
  • Title: Faces of the Enlightenment

    Faces of the Enlightenment

    Philosophical sketches
    by Zbigniew Drozdowicz (Author) 2020
    ©2020 Monographs
  • Title: Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought

    Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought

    by Mary Efrosini Gregory (Author) 2011
    ©2010 Monographs
  • Title: Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity

    Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity

    by James Kaye (Volume editor) Bo Stråth (Volume editor)
    ©2000 Edited Collection
  • Title: Cosmopolitanisms in Enlightenment Europe and Beyond

    Cosmopolitanisms in Enlightenment Europe and Beyond

    by Mónica García-Salmones (Volume editor) Pamela Slotte (Volume editor) 2013
    ©2013 Edited Collection
  • Title: Amadis de Gaule and the German Enlightenment

    Amadis de Gaule and the German Enlightenment

    by Sigmund J. Barber (Author)
    ©1984 Others
  • Title: Amadis De Gaule and the German Enlightenment

    Amadis De Gaule and the German Enlightenment

    by Sigmund J. Barber (Author)
    ©1984 Others
  • Title: Enlightened Reactions

    Enlightened Reactions

    Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women’s Writing
    by Traci S. O'Brien (Author) 2012
    ©2011 Monographs
  • Title: The Enlightened Physician

    The Enlightened Physician

    Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, 1784–1846
    by Geoffrey Wall (Author) 2014
    ©2013 Others
  • Title: Enlightened Rule

    Enlightened Rule

    Portraits of Six Exceptional Twentieth Century Premiers
    by Paul Maylam (Author) 2011
    ©2011 Monographs
  • Title: The Marquis de Sade as a Key Figure of Enlightenment

    The Marquis de Sade as a Key Figure of Enlightenment

    How His Crystal Genius Still Speaks to Today’s World and Its Major Problems
    by Moussa Traore (Author) 2012
    ©2012 Monographs
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