Salons [ Associational culture ]
… salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French Enlightenment. While scholars continue to debate the relationship of the salons to the Enlightenment, the salons were nevertheless a defining feature of social … Malesherbes, Montesquieu, Helvétius, Buffon, and Diderot, to name a few – are gathered in an ornate drawing room to debate the newest literary works and philosophical ideas, and to discuss the political issues of the day. While many of … for her own salon rue du Bac, and then at the Château de Coppet. 15 The salons soared to prominence amongst scholarly debates following Jürgen Habermas’ influential work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere , which …
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