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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.: Genealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment by Jean-Paul Zuñiga (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-101800348568

ISBN-139781800348561

eBay Product ID (ePID)28050415705

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameGenealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectGenealogy & Heraldry, Social, Modern / 18th Century

TypeNot Available

AuthorJean-Paul Zuñiga

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Reference, History

SeriesOxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2020-415347

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number2021:08

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal929.109/033

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisThe Age of Enlightenment has formerly been defined as hostile to the values of ancestry and genealogy. However, the transdisciplinary approach adopted by this book allows us to consider genealogy as a long lasting social practice and a form of reasoning, a language and a tool expressing social relations and establishing hierarchies throughout the 18th century., Genealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment is at the crossroads of the history of science and the social history of cultural practices, and suggests the need for a new approach on the significance of genealogies in the Age of Enlightenment. While their importance has been fully recognised and extensively studied in early modern Britain and in the Victorian period, the long eighteenth century has been too often presented as a black hole regarding genealogy. Enlightened values and urban sociability have been presented as inimical to the praise of ancestry and birth. In contrast, however, various studies on the continental or in the American colonies, have shed light on the many uses of genealogies, even beyond the landed elite. Whether it be in the publishing industry, in the urban corporations, in the scientific discourses, genealogy was used, not only as a resilient social practice, but also as a form of reasoning, a language and a tool to include newcomers, organise scientific and historical knowledge or to express various emotions. This volume aims to reconsider the flexibility of genealogical practices and their perpetual reconfiguration to meet renewed expectations in the period. Far from slowly vanishing under the blows of rationalism that would have delegitimized an ancient world based on various forms of hereditary determinism, the different contributions to this collective work demonstrate that genealogy is a pervasive tool to make sense of a fast-changing society.

LC Classification NumberCS7