L'Idee d'Energie Au Tournant Des Lumieres

Résumé du livre

The turn of the Enlightenment's century substitutes History for Nature. The idea of energy upsets entrenched dichotomies between the heart and mind, between libertinism and sentimentalism, between reverie and civic engagement. It shapes and scores the Encyclopedie's knowledge, revolutionary utopias, and the romantic imagination.