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The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Autor Antoine Lilti
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 ian 2015
The world of the 18th century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. Jurgen Habermas' influential theory of the public sphere was largely based on the salon. Based on a thorough study of archival sources and using methodology derived from cultural history, social history, and the history of literature, The World of Salons proposes a completely new reading of salons' sociability in eighteenth-century Paris. It challenges the commonly accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the Republic of Letters. It argues, instead, that salons were institutions of wordly sociability, had helped shape "the world" (le monde) and high society. They have been essential places where the aristocratic elites of the capital met and interacted with literary figures. These interactions based on the mastery of the codes of polite conversation but also on the circulation of news and of personal reputations are the subject of this book. The World of the Salon looks at the way in which eighteenth-century social elites redefined themselves through their practices of worldly sociability. It highlights why some men of letters of the Enlightenment attended the salons.Moving from the salons to worldliness permits taking on some broader debates as well. What relations did worldly sociability maintain with the public sphere? How did the Parisian nobility use the idea of worldly merit and the figure of the man of the world (homme du monde) to preserve its social preeminence? Was the new political culture characterized by an appeal to the public compatible with the monarchical apparatus and with court intrigues?A shortened and revised version of the French edition of this book, The World of the Salons is suitable for an Anglophone audience of early modern European cultural, political, and intellectual historians.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199772346
ISBN-10: 0199772347
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 157 x 241 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Lilti's analysis of the salons has taken the world of Enlightenment studies by storm....It has completely renewed our understanding of one of the most distinctive institutions pre-Revolutionary cultural life in Paris....Salons,...far from being incubators of subversion, were pillars of the established order,...reinforcing rather than subverting aristocratic culture....The Revolution cheerfully swept them away along with the rest of the Ancien Régime of which they were so integrally a part.
An original and compelling account of the reality of life in the salons...[that] has enriched our understanding of Old Regime society and culture in the process.
Translated, Lilti's findings need to be better incorporated into current Enlightenment syntheses and widely taught and debated....This is an admirable, important book for Enlightenment scholars.
There is no question that this is an absolutely brilliant book, the fruit of exhaustive research, and a historiographical game changer. Lilti does a masterful job of stripping away the veneer of retrospective characterizations of salons, and he presents us with a meticulous portrait of salons as they functioned and as they were perceived in their own time. Anyone writing about the intellectual climate of the eighteenth century will have to contend with his argument.
Antoine Lilti's book is a masterpiece. Grounded in exhaustive social historical research, it offers the most complete picture ever produced of 'salon society' in eighteenth-century France, dispelling countless myths and revealing the social background against which so much of the Enlightenment took shape. At the same time, its trenchant and original approach, grounded in cutting-edge social and cultural theory, makes it essential reading for anyone interested in what Robert Darnton famously described as the 'social history of ideas.'
A rich and multi-faceted account of an essential eighteenth-century social and cultural context. If we know it today as the 'salon,' it was only named as such after the fact. What is more, Lilti argues, this world never did quite conform to the standard notions that we have inherited of it, whether via Rousseau esque aversion to aristocratic culture or post Revolutionary nostalgia for polite society.
Lilti has produced an original and compelling account of the reality of life in the salons and he has enriched our understanding of Old Regime society and culture in the process.
The picture Lilti paints of the eighteenth-century salon stands in stark contrast to the one drawn by those who have tried to write its history in the light of Habermas's theory of the bourgeois public sphere. A number of the broader claims made by this dense and rewarding book, however, suggest that salons matter more than we have previously thought. Not only has Lilti reaffirmed that the subject will remain a vital element in a number of on going historical debates - concerning the roles of writers, the dimensions of the public sphere, the formation of public opinion, and the nature of Old Regime politics - but he has opened up new lines of inquiry by exploring such themes as the construction of social identities, the links between mondanite and literature, and the constitution of national stereotypes.
Le monde des salons offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the salons of eighteenth-century Paris. Antoine Lilti is an important new voice in the history of early modern France, and his stimulating book is sure to make a splash in the historiography of old regime cultural practices. Lilti writes with the grace and confidence of a seasoned professional, and Le monde des salons is certainly the new 'must read' on the history of the pre-Revolutionary French salon.
Antoine Lilti's Le Monde des salons is the most thorough and important study of eighteenth-century French salons to date. Methodologically sophisticated, it distinguishes between how contemporaries talked about salons and what actually took place in them. In doing so, it explodes several myths. First, it puts the lie to recent interpretations that have depicted salons as crucibles of modern egalitarianism - places where social hierarchy gave way to polite, enlightened conversation among equals. Second, Lilti shatters the image of salons as literary founts of enlightenment. Third, Lilti challenges the Tocquevillian notion that salons were sites for the elaboration of abstract literary politics and oppositional public opinion. Far from providing naive, disempowered philosophes a place to concoct seditious ideologies, salons were where savvy socialites bolstered their social, cultural, and political capital.
[A] useful contribution to redirecting the historiographical orthodoxy on salon sociability

Notă biografică

Antoine Lilti is director of studies at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.