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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

Editors: Donald, Diana; O’Gorman, Frank

DOI: 10.1057/9780230518889

ISBN: 978-1-349-51923-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction: Concepts of Order in the Eighteenth Century — Their Scope and Their Frailties

Donald, Diana

Pages: 1 –23

[The arts of Western Europe in the eighteenth century exude a sense of order. Consider, for example, the characteristic cadences of English literature: the regularity and closure of rhyming couplets; the balancing of phrases and ideas in the orotund prose writing of the period; the preoccupation...
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Providence, Predestination and Progress: Or, Did the Enlightenment Fail?

Clark, J. C. D.

Pages: 27 –62

[Early in 2002, the earth experienced a near miss: an asteroid passed within a whisker (in astronomical terms) of the planet.1 Had it struck, it would have done so with a force six hundred times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. No observer saw it coming, and it was tracked only after...
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‘One is All, and All is One’: The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley’s Siris

Bradatan, Costica

Pages: 63 –82

[In this essay I discuss how the topic of the Great Chain of Being, seen as a metaphysical principle making possible the cosmic order, came to be employed by George Berkeley (1685–1753) in his Siris (1744). Siris is a rather curious philosophical piece, as in it Berkeley proposes a panacea,...
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Ordering the Political World: The Pattern of Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1660–1832)

O’Gorman, Frank

Pages: 83 –111

[This essay is a contribution to the current debate about the political order in Britain in the long eighteenth century. It raises some fundamental issues. What was the nature of the political regime? How secure was the political order? What was the politics of the eighteenth century about? The...
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The Ordering of Family and Gender in the Age of the Enlightenment

Sweet, Rosemary

Pages: 112 –140

[In 1787 the physician William Moss described the unity and harmony that prevailed amongst the swelling population of his native town of Liverpool. They appear, he wrote, ‘as component parts of one great, allied family’.1 Throughout the eighteenth century the idea of the family acted as a...
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Félibien and the Circle of Colbert: A Reevaluation of the Hierarchy of Genres

Anderman, Barbara

Pages: 143 –162

[For over a century it has been a largely unquestioned assumption that taste in pictures in later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France was shaped by a value construct known as the ‘hierarchy of genres’, a ranking of clearly identified subjects of painting according to their degree of...
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The Values of the Mineral Kingdom and the French Republic

Simon, Jonathan

Pages: 163 –189

[There are many different ways to approach the questions of order and hierarchy in the history of science. It is hardly original to claim the centrality of such concerns for the eighteenth century, which is often characterized as the century of classification.2 In this context, it is customary to...
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The Système figuré des connaissances humaines and the Structure of Knowledge in the Encyclopédie

Adams, David

Pages: 190 –215

[If, as Horkheimer and Adorno argued many years ago, the Enlightenment as we now see it is an attempt to eliminate the mythical (in the sense of abolishing belief in the supernatural), it has conversely become a myth in its own right.1 One essential component of this ‘myth; is that the period was...
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‘Encircling the Arts and Sciences’: British Encyclopedism after the French Revolution

Hawley, Judith

Pages: 216 –243

[Writing in 1799, the Scottish cleric George Gleig fulminated against the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot: The French Encyclopédie has been accused, and justly accused, of having disseminated, far and wide, the seeds of Anarchy and Atheism.’1 This counter-revolutionary blast — written while...

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