Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought by Culpin, David J.

Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820420240)

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Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought by Culpin, David J.

Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought

$33.95
Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought by Culpin, David J.

Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought

$33.95
Format: Hardcover
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This publication is a study of the ideas of Marivaux, the French novelist and playwright. It covers the fields of literature, history and intellectual history and aims first to shed light on both Marivaux, the man and his writing, and then to situate him within the context of the early Enlightenment. The author identifies Marivaux with the philosophical tradition of innate ideas which was increasingly displaced among intellectuals by materialism as the Enlightenment progressed. The consequences of this affiliation are followed through in successive chapters devoted to metaphysics, morality, religion and politics. A substantial conclusion suggests a number of influences that might have combined to form Marivaux's intellectual outlook. This book is the only work to provide a synthesis of Marivaux's ideas that then acts as the frame-work for resolving contradictory interpretations of his work that have been offered by other scholars.

Author: David J. Culpin
ISBN-10: 0820420247
ISBN-13: 9780820420240
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1993
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
By David J. Culpin
By David J. Culpin
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The Author: David Culpin is Head of French at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where he specializes in seventeenth- and eightteenth-century French literature. He studied at the universities of Bristol and Bordeaux and began his professional career as a lecturer in French at the University of Hong Kong. Subsequently, he has also held a Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Visiting Scholarship at St. John's College in the same university. He has published a number of articles situating Marivaux in the artistic and intellectual context of his time and is currently a committe member and British correspondent of the Société Marivaux.

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