{"product_id":"debating-enlightenment-scholarship-historiography-and-the-transmission-of-books-and-ideas-9781914967238","title":"Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bold reappraisal of Enlightenment legacies this volume uncovers the fractured, global, and contested nature of modern Europe's most influential intellectual transformation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmerging from the intellectual upheavals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment has long served as both a foundational moment and a battleground for narratives of Western modernity. Once anchored in the writings of Spinoza, Kant, Diderot, and D'Alembert, its genealogy is now understood to stretch from the rhetorical afterlives of Renaissance humanism and the polemics of the \u003ci\u003eQuerelle des Anciens et des Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e, through the religious pluralism of the Dutch Republic and the confessional fractures of the Holy Roman Empire, to the text-critical methods of orthodox theologians and the radical secularism of the philosophes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume rethinks the Enlightenment as a dynamic \u003ci\u003eespace de débat\u003c\/i\u003e-a field of contested meanings shaped by transnational circulation, institutional conflict, and historiographical reinvention. Drawing on debates around the \"Enlightenment project\", \"radical\" and \"religious\" Enlightenment, and the tensions between cosmopolitan ideals and national traditions, it engages with the works of Jonathan Israel, Dan Edelstein, and Jeffrey Burson, amongst others, to explore \u003ci\u003elongue durée\u003c\/i\u003e patterns of intellectual exchange and secularisation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich in case studies from Paris, London, Amsterdam, Leipzig, and beyond, the collection speaks directly to those navigating the plural legacies of Enlightenment historiography in an era increasingly shaped by digital tools, global frameworks, and postcolonial critique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarducci, Marco:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - MARCO BARDUCCI is Associate Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Pavia. He has published widely on political and intellectual history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalsh, Ashley James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ASHLEY WALSH is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University, Wales.","brand":"Durham University Imems Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812571021586,"sku":"9781914967238","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c720a4f-668e-4403-a6b1-87a09b3aba20.jpg?v=1766490208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/debating-enlightenment-scholarship-historiography-and-the-transmission-of-books-and-ideas-9781914967238","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}