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Adventurers of the Enlightenment

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Adventurers of the Enlightenment
14.99 €
The book by Alexander Stroev, professor of general and comparative literature, tells about the shadow side of the Age of Enlightenment: about adventurers, alchemists and deceivers. It is dedicated to the famous adventurers and literary men who visited Russia in the 18th century: Casanova, Cagliostro, d'Eon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chudy, Fougere de Montbron, the Zannovich brothers, and more. Their stories serve as a kind of mirror that reflects not so much the consciousness as the subconscious of society: its secret desires and hopes, fears and fantasies. In the first part, the author explores the place of adventurers in the information system of the Enlightenment, their relationships with monarchs and philosophers; in the second part, he compares their biographies with the narrative models of the era, myths and vagabond stories. The final chapter is devoted to the fates of those adventurers who traveled to Russia, seeing it as a country where the most daring utopian projects could be realized. The reader is offered the second - corrected and enlarged - edition of the book.
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