Retranscription de l'essai écrit en français par Gibbon lors de son séjour en Suisse, complétée par une étude sur l'écrivain et sa perception de la vie intellectuelle européenne. ©Electre 2025
Before he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. In the Essai, a work of remarkable erudition and energy largely finished by the age of twenty-one, Gibbon reflects on the present state of knowledge in post-Renaissance Europe - what he calls littérature.
The first complete edition of the Essai since 1761, this volume sets Gibbon's work in its intellectual context. A detailed introduction examines the biographical, cultural and historical background to this text: the young writer's perception of European intellectual life as he observed it from Lausanne, his relation to the Encyclopédie and the French académies, the fate of erudition, and the modern organization of learning in books. An extensive commentary concludes this edition, providing invaluable annotation of each chapter, including the important but little-known sections on religion that were replaced by Gibbon in the final text.
As current debates revisit the meaning of Enlightenment, readers will find in this edition of Gibbon's Essai a new approach to the intellectual networks and tensions that lie at its heart.
Paru le : 13/07/2010
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Edward Gibbon
Éditeur(s) :
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century
Contributeur(s) : Préfacier : Robert Mankin - Commentateur de texte : Robert Mankin - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Patricia B. Craddock
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-0-7294-0997-1
EAN13 : 9780729409971
Reliure : Broché
Pages : X-369
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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