The interweaving of sacred and secular

Metaphysics, reform and enlightenment in the rivalry between Dom Deschamps and Claude Yvon, 1769–1774

Bibliographic Data

ID7094367
AuthorsJeffrey D Burson (Georgia Southern University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume29
Issue3
Pages439-466
Publication date2018-12-05
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIntellectual History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496977.2018.1521629
OpenAlexW2902658247
LanguageEN
References cited49

The Benedictine Dom Léger-Marie Deschamps and the philosophical Abbé Claude Yvon may indeed be minor eighteenth-century figures, and they both may be considered to have emerged from the Catholic side of something Helena Rosenblatt has dubbed the Christian Enlightenment, but neither of these figures is neatly "conservative" (as Mark Curran defines it), nor are they fully "radical" (in the sense of having contributed to the Radical Enlightenment). Rather, Deschamps and Yvon are among a number of eighteenth-century figures who do not fit neatly into the expected parameters of Catholic, Christian, Religious or Radical Enlightenment. This article argues that the entanglement of both heterodoxy and orthodoxy, and of sociopolitical progressivism and conservatism, is characteristic of Yvon's and Deschamps's particular engagement with what Vincenzo Ferrone describes as the cultural revolution of the eighteenth century. This study of these under-examined Catholic scholars further suggests that conventional and tidy scholarly narratives of the history of Enlightenment should be further problematized

Art · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Heterodoxy · Literature · Metaphysics · Orthodoxy · Theology · European Political History Analysis · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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