MDDM18: Enthusiasts

[Dave Monroe]

"There, over the Evening, he will find, among the
Clientele, German Enthusiasts ..." (M&D, Ch. 30, p.
298)

See ...

Klein, Lawrence E. Anthony J. La Vopa, eds.
   Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850.
   Berkeley: U oF California P, forthcoming.

These essays on the shifting content and value
attached to "enthusiasm" treat a particular historical
question and at the same time pose a general challenge
to our methodological expectations. The contributors
(Peter Fenves, Jan Goldstein, Lawrence E. Klein, Jon
Mee, J. G. A. Pocock, Mary D. Sheriff, and Anthony J.
La Vopa) study the discourses of religion, psychology,
aesthetics, politics, and philosophy in which
"enthusiasm" figured as a key term--often a pejorative
by which various forms of orthodoxy sought to
establish their authority, sometimes a desideratum
attached to intellectual, spiritual, or artistic
inspiration. By tracing these often parallel
discourses in France, Germany, and England, the essays
establish the value of a transnational framework for
the issues of secularization and modernity, one that
draws on the perspectives of intellectual as well as
social and political history

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/HL2000.html

Recalling, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0201&msg=64713

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0201&msg=64726

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65028


	
		
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