The Enlightenment in Practice : Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670-1794.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations and Translation -- Map of France -- Introduction -- 1. The Rebirth of the Concours Académique: Cultural Politics and the Domestication of letters in the age of Louis Xiv -- 2. À la Recherche du Concours Académique -- 3. The Participatory Enlightenment -- 4. Dijon Revisited: Rousseau's First Discourse from the Perspective of the Concours Académique -- 5. The Concours Académique, Political Culture, and the Critical Public Sphere -- 6. The Practical Enlightenment: The Concours Académique, the State, and the Pursuit of Expertise -- 7. Prize Contests in the Revolutionary Crucible: Decline and Regeneration -- Conclusion: The Enlightenment in Question -- Appendixes -- A. Academies and Societies in France That Held Public Prize Contests from the Fourteenth Century to 1794 227 -- B. Female Laureates of the Concours Académique, 1671-1790 -- C. Contests founded by the Abbé Raynal -- D. Contests on Poverty, Begging, and Poor Relief -- E. Contests Related to Urban Drinking Water -- F. List of Prize Contests Offered by Academies, Scholarly Societies, and Agricultural Societies in Continental France from 1670 to 1794 (available at http://www.jeremycaradonna.com) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Jeremy L. Caradonna draws on archives both in Paris and the provinces of France to show that thousands of individuals participated in intellectual competitions during the Enlightenment.

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