{"product_id":"divining-nature-aesthetics-of-enchantment-in-enlightenment-france-hardback-9781503613362","title":"Divining Nature; Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France (Hardback) 9781503613362","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDivining Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTili Boon Cuillé (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503613362\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages, 17 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.662 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Genuinely interdisciplinary and drawing on an astonishing range of sources, \u003ci\u003eDivining Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable achievement. Tili Boon Cuillé demonstrates that enchantment and the sentiment of the divine lie at the heart of scientific and aesthetic debates in the eighteenth century and are in no way antithetical to the spirit of the Enlightenment.\"—Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia University \"Overturning a number of critical and historical clichés about the Enlightenment's role in disenchanting the world, Tili Boon Cuillé recovers a bold and original vision of the continuing role that enchantment played in the Age of Reason in France.\"—Göran Blix, Princeton University \"\u003ci\u003eDivining Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is laudably ambitious. In a moment of strident and sometimes caricatural critique of the Enlightenment as a bastion of whiteness, colonial violence, and epistemic imperialism, \u003ci\u003eDivining Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a more capacious, nuanced, and agile vision, one based on epistemological humility, the transcendence of personal, cultural, and conceptual boundaries, and the rooting of aesthetic pleasure in the sympathetic identification with the other.\"—Ryan Whyte, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \"Tili Boon Cuillé's newest book, \u003ci\u003eDivining Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, is a truly valuable contribution to the state of French Enlightenment studies today, convincingly demonstrating what is becoming increasingly apparent: that this movement was neither a clean break with the past, nor a definitive rejection of religion and spirituality, nor a neat split between the sciences and the arts.\"—Hanna Roman, \u003ci\u003eH-France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuillé examines the representation of natural phenomena—whether harmonious or discordant—in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Staël. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the \"spectacle of nature\" in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the \"sentiment of divinity.\" These \"passions of the soul,\" traditionally associated with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that structured Diderot's \u003ci\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/i\u003e and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuillé reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion, and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Spectacle of Nature\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Marvels of Nature in Buffon and Rameau\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Philosophy of Nature in Diderot and Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Harmony of Nature in Paul et Virginie\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Poetics of Nature in Ossian and Staël\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: A Theater of Enchantment\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610611216664,"sku":"9781503613362","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/divining-nature-aesthetics-of-enchantment-in-enlightenment-france-hardback-9781503613362","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}