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In the Republic of Letters, the land of authors, it falls to journalists to write the glib, forgettable books, scholars the ones that last.
How the Dollar Rules by Fiat James Grant 2011
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When I look backward, I fix my gaze on the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment, its faith in the power of knowledge, and the world of ideas in which it operated—what the enlightened referred to as the Republic of Letters.
Archive 2009-01-25 2009
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Robert Granat wrote a thoughtful novel of the religious life, Regenesis 1972, described by Anatole Broyard as a novel that should “satisfy even those whose taste runs to the secular,” and then disappeared from the Republic of Letters.
One-book authors 2009
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They often wrote about books, for Jefferson loved to haunt the bookshops in the capital of the Republic of Letters, and he frequently bought books for his friend.
Google & the Future of Books Darnton, Robert 2009
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When I look backward, I fix my gaze on the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment, its faith in the power of knowledge, and the world of ideas in which it operated—what the enlightened referred to as the Republic of Letters.
B2fxxx 2009
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The eighteenth-century Republic of Letters had been transformed into a professional Republic of Learning, and it is now open to amateurs—amateurs in the best sense of the word, lovers of learning among the general citizenry.
B2fxxx 2009
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Robert Granat wrote a thoughtful novel of the religious life, Regenesis 1972, described by Anatole Broyard as a novel that should “satisfy even those whose taste runs to the secular,” and then disappeared from the Republic of Letters.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Despite its principles, the Republic of Letters, as it actually operated, was a closed world, inaccessible to the underprivileged.
B2fxxx 2009
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The eighteenth-century Republic of Letters had been transformed into a professional Republic of Learning, and it is now open to amateurs—amateurs in the best sense of the word, lovers of learning among the general citizenry.
Archive 2009-01-25 2009
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Despite its principles, the Republic of Letters, as it actually operated, was a closed world, inaccessible to the underprivileged.
Archive 2009-01-25 2009
chained_bear commented on the word Republic of Letters
"An interest in explorations, nurtured by their close cousins--geography, ethnography, botany, and zoology--acted like a magnet for new associations. Common interests cemented personal relationships, often maintained through correspondence. Books and letters linked enthusiasts across national borders. Like the humanists, bound by a love of ancient texts, those following the voyages of discovery introduced something new to European society: affinity groups. These avid readers formed a Republic of Letters in a world of monarchies."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 76
December 28, 2016