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Introduction Provincializing Newton, or Building in the Ruins of a Grand Narrative of Modernity 1
Pt. 1 Before the Light: Newton and French Science Before 1728 37
Ch. 1 Newton without Newtonianism: French Mathematical Science in the Early Eighteenth Century 49
Ch. 2 Sources of Enlightenment Newtonianism: Toward a New Climate of Science in France after 1715 105
Ch. 3 Preparing the Battlefield: Fighting For and Against Newton after 1715 165
Pt. 2 The Newton Wars in France 233
Ch. 4 The Invention of French Newtonianism: Maupertuis and Voltaire 245
Ch. 5 Making the "Philosophe": Voltaire's Newtonianism and the Scandal of the Lettres philosophiques 295
Ch. 6 A French Culture War: The Battle over Newtonianism 343
Ch. 7 Leibnizianism and the Solidification of the French Enlightenment 403
Coda: Instituting the French Enlightenment: Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie 481
Bibliography 507
Index 549
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Robert Stabile
reviewed The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment on April 07, 2012
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
This book and I did not get along. It was partly my fault--I showed my boredom by yawning over dinner with it and by skimming. But it was also its fault--it had a tendency to repeat itself and to go on for too long. Clearly Match.com would not have put us together. I don't usually find myself put off by very academic books but I could not cope with the discussions of 17th-century "attraction" theory (aka "gravity"). And the mathematics made my eyes glaze over. We decided to separate amicably so that it could find the right reader for itself.
"New philosophical ideas themselves, in fact, be they Newtonian or otherwise, were not even as crucial as one might think to the beginning of the French Enlightenment since many of them were already commonplace when Voltaire put them to use. Rather, what opened the French Enlightenment in 1734 was the particular way that Voltaire deployed these philosophical ideas, and the particular self-fashioning he accomplished with them, a self-fashioning that led to the definition of a new kind of critical, libertarian intellectual in France. Ultimately, this new, liberation intellectual style, and the social assumptions that made it possible, cohered in the construction of a new persona, the philosophe. This persona in turn made possible the French Enlightenment that followed in its wake." 31
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