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The Scienza della legislacione of the Neapolitan legal expert Gateano Filangieri enjoyed a considerable circulation in Spain during the final decades of the Eighteenth century. It was the main subject of numerous translations, reviews and discourses. It exerced enormous influence on the Spanish Enli...

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Premised upon Kant's dictum that his contemporaries lived not in an enlightened age but in an age of Enlightenment and a clear concept of the difference between public freedom and private freedom, this article analyses the reality of the Enlightenment in Spain during Floridablanca's length...

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The focus of this study is the views of Feofan Prokopovich, a unique Orthodox thinker whose world outlook was shaped by an obvious influence of the ideas of the Protestant and Catholic Enlightenment. Talking about the Enlightenment, modern historiography focuses on the versatility of the phenomenon,...

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The article investigates the narrative nature of the painting by the English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764). The specific character of the literary way of the image of the artist depiction and the components of the aesthetics of his work, suggesting the intertwining of literary poetics in the...

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This article wants to show the influence exercised by the experiences impelled by the Bourbon reformism in the territorial organization of the Rio de la Plata. We begin by asking how does the transculturation of new ideas of field reorganization in the American space takes place taking into account...

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A large number of transcultural fictions appeared in the 18th century, providing us with an important entry into discussing the task of comparative literature today. The 18th-century Oriental tales, stories authored by European writers that adapted from or modeled themselves after loose translations...

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This article examines the confidential report requested from the Count of Floridablanca by the Council of Castile in March 1805 regarding a student riot that had taken place in Murcia in January of the previous year. The leading actors in these events (the « Manteista rising » as it was termed by th...

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Those who pursue enlightenment want to change and shape their society. This was true for the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century and also for many who later looked back on it, including scholars – right up to the present day. Activism can motivate efforts to gain knowledge, but it can also re...

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Bu çalışmada, Aydınlanma’nın referans metinlerinden olan Immanuel Kant’ın Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? çalışmasının çevirisi ve ardından özgün metni yer almaktadır.Çeviride, çalışmanın yazarı olarak Kant’ın yazım edimine yaklaşımda başvurduğu felsefe korunmuştur. Örneğin Latince ifade...

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Resumo Problematizamos uma série de gêneros textuais escritos durante o Iluminismo em Portugal, marcadamente entre 1720 e 1800, compreendendo-os na condição de manuais de saber, e apontamos alguns sentidos das imagens nesses escritos de ampla circulação no mundo luso-brasileiro.

Data represents a compendium of information that perpetually expands with each passing moment, contributed by individuals worldwide. Within the domain of medical science, this reservoir of data accumulates at an almost exponential rate, doubling in volume annually. The emergence of advanced machine...

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The books’ role in the German Enlightenment discourse explores the intersection of different but complementary disciplines: bibliology, philosophy of culture and «text linguistics», as well as the history of literature that expands the possibilities of studying cultural and public communication. A t...

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This paper interprets the idea of feast and hospitality in The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradovic: Who as a Monk Was Given the Name Dositej. Analysing the figures of friendship, one comes to the constitutive elements of Dositej’s autonarrative that reveal a special kind of hunger and emptin...

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This article examines the role of books and libraries during the Age of Enlightenment through the lens of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s work, a prominent figure of French Enlightenment thought. Central to the article is his novel L’An 2440, rêve s’il en fut jamais (1770–1771), which may be considered bo...

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The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1450 allowed the dissemination of works on a larger scale and democratized access to manuscripts. In return for the prior censorship of published content, the laws granted printers the exclusive right to exploit published works, a "privilege&...

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Purpose – This article aims to explore the key role of community participation in the protection and development of national parks under the global trend of national park development and provide reference for the construction of China’s national park system by analyzing international successful case...

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This article examines the Masonic symbols and specific Masonic language in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise. While the work is often understood as a plea for tolerance and interfaith dialogue within the context of the Enlightenment, less attention has been given to its deliberate us...

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