Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… denoted a circle of philosophers or an assembly of erudite gentlemen, later expanding to encompass meeting spaces and public institutions such as universities. Academies were initiated through social relationships and closely conformed in … of man, who was a sociable ( conversevole ) animal,’ and ‘studious leisure ( otium litteratum ) away from the hubbub of public life’ . In France, salons were thus the forums for ‘learned elocution’ and cultured conversation. 7 Georg Simmel … a social approach, through the lens of the men and women who populated the abstract, idealised entity that was the Republic of Letters, and through the study of their intellectual practices. 11 4 . Antoine Lilti, Le Monde des salons, …
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