Republics of Letters (ROLF) vol. 1, n°1 - 2009

Republics of Letters

A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts

Volume 1, Issue 1, 05.01.2009 After Cultural Studies: When the State Has Not Withered AwayJosiah Ober The Post-Soviet is Over: On Reading the RuinsKevin M. F. Platt Forum: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment: Rethinking the Republic of Letters A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of LettersAnthony Grafton The Ancient Constitution and the Genealogist: Momigliano, Pocock, and Peiresc's Origines Murensis Monasterii (1618)Peter Miller Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of LettersJacob Soll The Nature of Early Eighteenth-Century Religious RadicalismMargaret Jacob Digging for Antiquities with Diplomats: Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716) and his Social CapitalBianca Chen Standing in St. Petersburg Looking West, Or, Is Backwardness All There Is?Gary Marker Founding a Scientific Academy: Gender, Patronage and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century MilanPaula Findlen The Kingdom of Politesse: Salons and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century ParisAntoine Lilti Slander and Glory in the Republic of Letters: Diderot and Seneca Confront RousseauElena Russo Humanism, l'Esprit Philosophique, and the EncyclopédieDan Edelstein

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