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Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France

Tili Boon Cuillae

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Description:The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuill� questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason.Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuill� examines the representation of natural phenomena--whether harmonious or discordant--in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Sta�l. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the spectacle of nature in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the sentiment of divinity. These passions of the soul, traditionally associated with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that structured Diderot's Encyclop�die and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuill� reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion, and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade.This book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France. To get started finding Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuill� questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason.Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuill� examines the representation of natural phenomena--whether harmonious or discordant--in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Sta�l. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the spectacle of nature in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the sentiment of divinity. These passions of the soul, traditionally associated with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that structured Diderot's Encyclop�die and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuill� reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion, and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade.This book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France. To get started finding Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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