The enlightenment invention of the modern self pdf

Leo Damrosch è un autore e professore americano. Nel 2001 è stato nominato Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature all'Università di Harvard.[1] Ha conseguito un B.A. dalla Yale University, un Master presso l'Università di Cambridge, dove è stato Marshall Scholar, e un Ph.D. dell'Università di Princeton. Le sue aree di specializzazione accademica includono il Romanticismo, l'Illuminismo e il Puritanesimo.[1] "I dolori di Gesù quacchero" di Damrosch è una delle più importanti esplorazioni recenti della storia antica della Società degli amici. Il suo Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) è stato finalista del National Book Award per la saggistica e vincitore del 2006 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award per il miglior lavoro di saggistica. Tra i suoi altri libri ci sono "Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth" (1980), "God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding" (1985), "Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson" (1987) e "La scoperta dell'America di Tocqueville" (2010).

The enlightenment invention of the modern self pdf da Leo Damrosch

"In 24 lectures that let you see the world through the eyes of the Enlightenment's greatest writers, follow the origin of new ways of thinking-ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent-about the individual and society. You'll discover how these notions emerged in an era of transition from a world dominated by classical thought, institutional religion, and the aristocracy to one that was increasingly  Read more...

Abstract: "In 24 lectures that let you see the world through the eyes of the Enlightenment's greatest writers, follow the origin of new ways of thinking-ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent-about the individual and society. You'll discover how these notions emerged in an era of transition from a world dominated by classical thought, institutional religion, and the aristocracy to one that was increasingly secular, scientific, skeptical, and middle class. These lectures are essentially about ideas and about books-how great ideas are alive and powerful in the pages of significant written works. The guiding premise is that the best way to appreciate the thinking of a given period is to explore its literature. You'll note or discuss at length a range of novels, autobiographies, and biographies from the 1670s to the 1790s, including The Pilgrim's Progress, Candide, The London Journal, The Social Contract, Confessions, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience. If you haven't already done so, this is your opportunity to familiarize yourself with this remarkable collection of works. What was, after all, the modern self that the Enlightenment invented' This engaging lecture series suggests that it was a new human insight, one that rejected absolute or easily generalized explanations and embraced the conflict, confusion, and paradox of life. It was a new and dynamic account of human life-one that continues to both benefit and afflict us. And in the company of a master educator, you can finally discover why our everyday lives in the modern world are indebted to the writings of the Enlightenment thinkers."