Philosophie et antiphilosophie au temps des Lumières

Autour de Loménie de Brienne

Volume editor Hélène Cussac Volume editor Jean-Noël Pascal Series edited by Jacques Berchtold Series edited by Catriona Seth

Book cover: Philosophie et antiphilosophie au temps des Lumières

Extent: 345 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: French

Hardback (Published)

(April 2026)

ISBN: 9782406197515

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $132.00

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This volume focuses on Loménie de Brienne—a complex and emblematic figure positioned at the crossroads of Enlightenment philosophy and religious apologetics—alongside other paradoxical figures, in order to shed light on the ongoing dialectic between philosophers and anti-philosophers. It also seeks to revisit literary history—or, at the very least, to explore its hidden underside.

Hélène Cussac est professeure à l’université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) et membre du laboratoire Patrimoine, littérature, histoire (PLH) de l’université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. Elle a notamment collaboré à l’édition des Œuvres complètes de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Paris, 2023), au Dictionnaire des anti-Lumières et des antiphilosophes (France, 1715-1815) (Paris, 2017) et co-dirigé l’ouvrage Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799). Approches critiques renouvelées (Paris, 2026).

  • Volume editor Hélène Cussac
  • Volume editor Jean-Noël Pascal
  • Series edited by Jacques Berchtold
  • Series edited by Catriona Seth