Reseaux de l'esprit en Europe, des Lumieres au XIXe siecle: Actes du Colloque international de Coppet, decembre 2003 (Recherches Et Rencontres)

by Wladimir Berelowitch, Michel Porret (Editor)

Today's globalizing communications networks draw their origins from the Réseaux de l'esprit of the Ancien Régime which united academies, men of letters, literary societies and intellectuals, and which are the subject of the sixteen articles in this collection of proceedings from the Colloque internationale de Coppet. Through epistolary exchange, the circulation of printed materials, political editorials, journalism, travels, and literary circles, the intellectual links of the networks of the mind legitimized and empowered the culture of modernity and egalitarian ideals of early-modern urban Europe. French text.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009