stílus 1 (fehér)
stílus 2 (fekete)

+ betűméret | - betűméret   



Korunk 2009 Október

Abstracts

 


Emese Egyed

Ubi sunt...? The Glory of the Village Kendilóna

Keywords: regional Enlightenment, writing practices of the aristocracy, gender roles

The literary research of the past few years had been substantially reckoning with local values and the geographical affiliation of literary production. Regarding the research of the Enlightenment, the concept of different regional Enlightenments emerged mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. This case study focuses on the village of Kendilóna (Luna de Sus in Romania) and the literary praxis of a Hungarian noble family, the landowners of the region. By working up some mostly unknown material the analysis unveils various aspects of the culture of book and of conversation, respectively of the specific roles of female intellectuals at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

 

Simona Gîrleanu

Paris and London on the Turn of the 18th Century. Drawing Parrallels

Keywords: travel account, ideal city, uchronia, description, definition

This article is based on two travelogues from the turn of the 18th century: Parallèle de Paris et de Londres (1781?) by Louis Sébastien Mercier and the Voyage philosophique d’Angleterre fait en 1783 et 1784, an underrated travel account by De La Coste, published in London, in 1786. In order to shed light on the mechanisms of urban description in these texts, the author first considers the works of the architect Pierre Patte, then, the discourse of natural history, and, in particular, the entry Description in Diderot’s Encyclopaedia. Not only does this confrontation of texts emphasise the convergence points bet-ween Mercier’s and Patte’s works, but it also reveals the tension between description and definition in De La Coste’s Voyage. A distinct pattern begins to emerge in the background of the urban representations in these two travel accounts.

 

Gergely Labádi

Researching Enlightenment. The Information Society Is Now Upon Us”

Keywords: information society, network society, mediality, second book revolution

Considering some noteworthy concepts of medial turn and information society, the paper outlines the restructuring of the Hungarian Enlightenment. In a new way of argumentation, the author claims that if we want to understand the present network society, we will have to render ourselves to the second book revolution. The depicted events draw attention on some peculiarities of the period by presenting its conception on mediality and its proper traffic of knowledge.

 

Antoine Lilti

How Do We Write the Intellectual History of Enlightenment? Spinosism, Radicalism and Philosophy

Keywords: radical Enlightenment, histo-riography, Spinosism revisited

In this keynote essay the author draws attention on a new concept of the Enlightement as presented in Jonathan Israel’s books Radical Enlightenment (2001) and Enlightment Contested (2005). Lilti disregards some major no-velties of Israel’s books and considers their Spinosism of utmost importance. In his approach Israel chooses a way earlier interpretation of Spinosa’s role than contemporary french Spinosism – and conferes to it a very trifling core of relevance. This excerpt from a detailed polemic text tries to grasp the main lines of a tremendously vast study dedicated to the historiography of the Enlightenment – marking the research of the Enlightenment at the dawn of our decade.

 

Márton Szilágyi

Religion, Enlightenment, Literature – Doubts and Considerations

Keywords: Enlightenment, laicization, Hungarian historiography of the Enlightenment

The author discusses the key concept of the Hungarian Enlightenment: laicisation and its bearing on literary and cultural history. If we focus on the turn of the 18th century, do we really have to consider it an age of irreligion, as it had been seen at some major historical monographers as Ferenc Bíró, Domokos Kosáry etc.? The author argues that religious appartenance remained among the defining moments of the period. From this angle we better speak of a fragmented Enlightenment.

 

 

 

Vissza az oldal tetejére

+ betűméret | - betűméret