‘Encircling the Arts and Sciences’
British Encyclopedism after the French Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23458366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Hawley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 216-243 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230518889_9 |
| OpenAlex | W2499620482 |
| ISBN | 9780230518889 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Writing in 1799, the Scottish cleric George Gleig fulminated against the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot: The French Encyclopédie has been accused, and justly accused, of having disseminated, far and wide, the seeds of Anarchy and Atheism.’ 1 This counter-revolutionary blast — written while England was at war with the apparently anarchistic and atheistical France — did not appear in one of the myriad of pamphlets which recorded and conducted debate in that spasmodic era, but in the Supplement to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1801), in the Dedication addressed to the King. Far from presenting this work of reference as an impersonal and disinterested record of the current state of knowledge, its editor, Gleig, stressed his own ‘upright intentions’ (p. iv) — the personal loyalty and piety which underpinned the work: In conducting to its conclusion the Encyclopaedia Britannica , I am conscious only of having been uniformly influenced by a sincere desire to do Justice to those Principles of Religion, Morality, and Social Order, of which the Maintenance constitutes the Glory of Your MAJESTY’S Reign, and will, I trust, record Your Name to the latest Posterity, as the Guardian of the Laws and Liberties of Europe , (p. iii) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Economic Justice · Glory · Loyalty · Majesty · Morality · Piety · Political science · Politics · Reign · The arts · Classics · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
The cultural origins of the French Revolution
The Palace of Secrets
A dictionary of arts and sciences
Greene Centennial Studies
The Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Hannah More
The Business of Enlightenment
This Strange Offspring of Philosophie
Les Encyclopédistes et la Terreur
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |