04.11.2019
Between Two Worlds: Germaine de Staël’s De l’Allemagne
Novelist, philosophical essayist, political theorist, literary critic, salonnière and exile, Germaine de Staël represents the last éclat of the Enlightenment encyclopedic spirit, its faith in human progress and rationality, its democratic fervor, its vibrant cosmopolitanism. At the same time, arguably, there’s hardly a more astute critic of Enlightenment ideals, revolutionary politics, and philosophical and literary […]



