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CATEGORIES:Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Lunchtime Seminar - The Odyssey of eighteenth-cent
 ury scholarship and the entangled emergence of the
  Enlightenment - Dr Jeffrey D Burson\, Associate P
 rofessor French History at Georgia Southern Univer
 sity
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/130627
DESCRIPTION:Despite the importance of the Enlightenment in thi
 s era of renewed illiberal and authoritarian tende
 ncies\, much of the historical scholarship concern
 ing it suffers from an often bewildering lack of c
 onsensus about exactly what the Enlightenment was\
 , how socially or geographically widespread and di
 verse it was\, how Eurocentric were its origins\, 
 and how secular were its inceptions and outcomes. 
 My luncheon talk interrogates this lack of consens
 us by critically surveying the odyssey of scholars
 hip concerning the Enlightenment in an effort to f
 orge a more comprehensive and serviceable understa
 nding of the cultural history of the period. By ad
 apting the paradigm of l’histoire croisée—original
 ly employed by historians of transnational cultura
 l exchange and identity construction—to early mode
 rn developments\, I hope to show how many currentl
 y regnant paradigms of Enlightenment study can be 
 productively reframed as a process of cultural rev
 olution whereby the many conflictive and discreet 
 Enlightenments\, so often the preoccupation of his
 torical scholarship\, can be reconsidered in light
  of their entangled\, mutually constitutive\, and 
 shared intellectual genealogy. I argue that\, when
  viewed in such a way\, much of what has been cons
 idered the Enlightenment’s most radical\, most def
 initive\, most transformative\, or most secular ch
 aracteristics were unintended outcomes of a much l
 onger arc of intellectual history. This long-range
  cultural revolution\, although characterized by a
  preoccupation with moral and socio-cultural refor
 m\, often originated in debates over the religious
  implications of new discoveries in science\, and 
 the fruits of European exploration\, conquest\, an
 d colonization.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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