Herrera, Adrian (2018). Between the essay and the encyclopedic practice: Essay on the Manners and spirit of the nations of Voltaire and the Kosmos by Alexander von Humboldt. Trans-Rev. Litt. Gen. Comp., 23. PARIS: PRESSES SORBONNE NOUVELLE. ISSN 1778-3887
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Influenced by philosophy of the Enlightenment, Voltaire and Alexander von Humboldt pursued diverse intellectual interests that included several disciplines and subjects. Works such as Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations (Geneve, 1756) and Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Beschreibung der Welt (Stuttgart, 1845-1862) were written in order to display their readers the broadest possible knowledge on their respective disciplines: history and history of knowledge. Even though both were written as essays, a distant reading (according to Franco Moretti) reveal to what extent both Voltaire and Humboldt applied strategies of the encyclopedia that could allow us to see them as such.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-199521 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.4000/trans.2250 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Trans-Rev. Litt. Gen. Comp. | ||||||||
Volume: | 23 | ||||||||
Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
Publisher: | PRESSES SORBONNE NOUVELLE | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | PARIS | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1778-3887 | ||||||||
Language: | French | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19952 |
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