Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment (Audiobook) | Date: 23 May 2011, 19:30
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." — [b]Voltaire[/b]
Leading intellectual historian Alan Charles Kors shares with you his view of Voltaire as one of the most intriguing, influential—and elusive—thinkers of the modern world.
Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, Professor Kors sketches for you a vibrant, thought-provoking vision of Voltaire as "the father of the Enlightenment" and one of the great literary personalities of all time.
[b]The "Father of the Enlightenment"[/b]
Voltaire lived for 84 astoundingly productive years (1694-1778), wrote hundreds of works in almost all the literary, philosophical, and polemical genres current in his day, and left behind more than 20,000 letters.
What was his world like? Who and what influenced him? What questions and dilemmas did he ponder? What evils did he struggle against? What reforms did he advocate? What made him laugh and cry, or write a book like Candide, which is at once so funny and so sad? And what is his place in the history of the Western mind?
According to Professor Kors, "his life both reflected and profoundly altered the movement we now call the 'Enlightenment.' He wrote in almost every literary genre—from light verse to epic poem, drama, narrative fiction, essay, dictionary, philosophical treatise, and scientific popularization—and virtually created a genre, the 'philosophical tale,' in which he has remained most alive for posterity."
In more than two decades of distinguished teaching at Penn, Professor Kors has proven himself a top scholar and award-winning classroom performer. He has written numerous books and articles on French and British intellectual history, and has won two awards for distinguished college teaching and several awards for the defense of academic freedom. He is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. "The Patriarch"—An Overview
[*]2. The Education of a Philosophe
[*]3. Philosophical Letters, Part I
[*]4. Philosophical Letters, Part II
[*]5. The Years at Cirey
[*]6. From Optimism to Humanism
[*]7. Voltaire and the Philosophical Tale
[*]8. Voltaire at Ferney
[*]9. Voltaire and God
[*]10. Voltaire and History
[*]11. Voltaire and Toleration
[*]12. Apotheosis
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