The Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751-1772) is the laboratory of experience of the new technical-rational values produced by the 18th century and the philosophie. Science and the mechanical 'arts', labor, invention, industry and trade; and, following on from these, freedom of conscience, tolerance, dialogue etc., in their controversial relations, give a representation of the conflicts of the newly-born bourgeois society. Exponents of the 'enlightened', learned and anticlerical nobility (Jaucourt, d'Holbach, Hélvetius); of the intellectual petty bourgeoisie (Diderot, Rousseau, Marmontel, Deleyre); of the 'liberal clergy' (the abbés De Prades, Yvon, Pestré and many others). Work and the representation (also figurative) of the productive operations of the mechanical arts are the central point, the main means through which the Enlightenment's enterprise of human emancipation is accomplished.
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Chapter Title
Arti, tecniche e mestieri in Diderot e nell’Encyclopédie
Authors
Paolo Quintili
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.65
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2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
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2024
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919