Daniel Brewer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Brewer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewer |
| SIGNATURE | BREWER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A nthony J. L a V opa . The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures
The mind fascinates endlessly. Comprising cognitive faculties ranging from consciousness and judgment to imagination and feeling, the mind is that thing through which we interact with ourselves, others, and the world. But on what is thought contingent? Descartes posited that the immaterial mind (the res cogitans or “thinking thing”) was separate from the material body (the res extensa or “corporeal thing”). The mind remained safe from the world’s…
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from phi…
Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
France and Its Spaces of War
This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual h
The discourse of enlightenment in eighteenth-century France: Diderot and the art of philosophizing
This study focuses on the works of one of the best-known writers of eighteenth-century France, Denis Diderot, whose experimentation with presenting critical knowledge exemplifies the Enlightenment's struggle to produce a rationalist critique of all prior knowledge. Paying close attention to the formal-poetic nature of Diderot's writing, it examines the interplay between critical knowledge and its representation. Professor Brewer shows how Diderot…
The Philosophical Dialogue and the Forcing of Truth
Western philosophy has its beginnings in dialogue. It is in and through dialogue that Plato consolidates a technique of argumentation, a method of reasoning, and a philosophical system, seeking to disengage philosophy from what is now called literature, and to fashion a philosophical discourse that would be proper, distinct, and effective. Yet like all beginnings, this moment in philosophy's discursive history does not mark the sudden, unpreceden…
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The Philosophical Dialogue and the Forcing of Truth
Western philosophy has its beginnings in dialogue. It is in and through dialogue that Plato consolidates a technique of argumentation, a method of reasoning, and a philosophical system, seeking to disengage philosophy from what is now called literature, and to fashion a philosophical discourse that would be proper, distinct, and effective. Yet like all beginnings, this moment in philosophy's discursive history does not mark the sudden, unpreceden…
The discourse of enlightenment in eighteenth-century France: Diderot and the art of philosophizing
This study focuses on the works of one of the best-known writers of eighteenth-century France, Denis Diderot, whose experimentation with presenting critical knowledge exemplifies the Enlightenment's struggle to produce a rationalist critique of all prior knowledge. Paying close attention to the formal-poetic nature of Diderot's writing, it examines the interplay between critical knowledge and its representation. Professor Brewer shows how Diderot…
France and Its Spaces of War
This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual h
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from phi…
Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
A nthony J. L a V opa . The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures
The mind fascinates endlessly. Comprising cognitive faculties ranging from consciousness and judgment to imagination and feeling, the mind is that thing through which we interact with ourselves, others, and the world. But on what is thought contingent? Descartes posited that the immaterial mind (the res cogitans or “thinking thing”) was separate from the material body (the res extensa or “corporeal thing”). The mind remained safe from the world’s…
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