The Rest Is Silence Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death [#1000100]

Free Download The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Joanna Stalnaker
English | October 14, 2025 | ISBN: 0300181345, 9780300186345 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 9.6 MB
A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment
What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our usual perspective on the Enlightenment on its head, bringing to light a set of works written at the end of the Old Regime and at the end of their authors' lives. These works, all written before the French Revolution, cast a retrospective glance over the intellectual movement their authors participated in, and over the authors' own lives and works. Stalnaker shows that the beauty of these works stems from their authors' efforts to give literary form to the materiality and fragility of their dying bodies. As they reflected on writing as a means of reaching posterity, Enlightenment philosophers embraced the possibility that neither their names nor their writings would survive long beyond the decomposition of their bodies. They inscribed the silence and nothingness of death into their last works.
Stalnaker's book unsettles reigning interpretations of the Enlightenment as a precursor to our modernity and shows its protagonists at their moments of fragility and doubt, capturing their sense of an ending rather than the confidence in a glowing future so often attributed to them.
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