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- Title
The "System" as a Reading Technology: Pedagogy and Philosophical Criticism in Condillac's Traité des systêmes.
- Authors
Schwegman, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The article discusses eighteenth-century French philosopher abbé Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and his 1749 work "Traité des systêmes (Treatise on Systems)." It considers the use and meaning of the French word "système" in the early eighteenth century, especially in science and natural philosophy, the literary debate over the word's meaning in the later half of the eighteenth century, and how such debates were informative about the Enlightenment in France. Other subjects include rationalism, empiricism, and the Republic of Letters.
- Subjects
FRANCE; CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de, 1714-1780; TRAITE des systemes (Book); TREATISE on Systems (Book); 18TH century French philosophy; FRENCH philosophers; ENLIGHTENMENT; REPUBLIC of letters; EIGHTEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2010, Vol 71, Issue 3, p387
- ISSN
0022-5037
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jhi.0.0086