Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… 'Un dîner de philosophes', Voltaire Fondation, 1772. Abstract The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the … masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Academies Censorship Community Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Networks Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters was both an abstract ideal of a cosmopolitan, egalitarian community of scholars, and a very real, virtual community comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the …
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