L'idee De L'europe: Au Siecle Des Lumieres (open Book Classics)
by Rotraud von Kulessa /
2017 / French / PDF
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Face aux dfis entre autres politiques auxquels sont confronts diffrents pays europens, les chercheurs dix-huitimistes ont souhait revenir sur des expressions anciennes de valeurs partages et les interrogations passes sur des questions qui restent souvent dactualit. Au Sicle des Lumires, nombre dhommes et de femmes de lettres ont envisag lavenir du continent en particulier pour entriner leur souhait de garantir la paix en Europe. Les textes, runis dans cette anthologie, et signs des grands crivains du temps (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume ou encore Stal), comme doublis de lhistoire, prsentent, avec quelques excursus chronologiques (de Sully Hugo) les rflexions de penseurs dun dix-huitime sicle aux bornes chronologiques tendues lmergence et la chute de lEmpire engendrent des bouleversements nombreux , sur lEurope, son histoire, sa diversit, mais aussi sur ce quont en commun les nations qui composent, dans leur varit, un ensemble gographique. Ils mettent en vidence les origines historiques dun projet dunion europenne, le souhait de consolider les liens du continent avec le Maghreb ou la Turquie, limportance accorde au commerce et les inquitudes suscites par les sursauts de lhistoire, mais aussi lespoir plac dans les gnrations futures.
La Socit franaise dtude du XVIIIe sicle, lUniversit dAugsburg, lUniversit dOxford ont gnreusement contribu la publication de ce volume.
In view of the challengesmany of which are politicalthat different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the 18th century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continents future in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. The texts gathered here, and signed by major thinkers of the time (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume or Stal for instance), as well as by writers history has forgotten, present the reflections, with a couple of chronological extensions (from Sully to Victor Hugo) of authors from the long eighteenth centurythe French Empire and the fall of Napoleon generated numerous upheavalson Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what the nations, which, in all their diversity, make up a geographical unit, have in common. They show the historical origins of the project of a European union, the desire to consolidate the continents ties to the Maghreb or to Turkey, the importance granted to commerce and the worries engendered by historys convulsions, but also the hope vested in future generations.
The Socit franaise dtude du XVIIIe sicle, Augsburg University and the University of Oxford have generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
