Salons [ Associational culture ]
… and diffuse knowledge of the Enlightenment . 18 The extent to which the salons actually were indispensable to the intellectual ideas of the Enlightenment, and the degree to which relations in the salons were egalitarian, has been … Princeton University Press, 1976). 15 . Etienne Hofmann and François Rosset, Le groupe de Coppet: une constellation d’intellectuels européens, (Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2005). 16 . Jürgen Habermas, The … existed without both the aristocrats, with access to power and prestige, and the philosophes , who were defining the intellectual agenda of the Enlightenment. Some salons failed precisely because they had not enough of either group. …
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