The following topics are suggested to discuss:
The «long» 18th century: points of reference
Continental and British philosophies of man
Philosophical belles-lettres and their heroes (Candide, Zadig, «Jacques Le Fataliste»,
Tristram Shandy, Werther, Saint-Preux, Télémaque, Mentor, «Le Neveu de Rameau», et al.)
From «La Nouvelle Héloïse» to «poor Liza»: feminine images of philosophical prose
«Russian Werther»: heroes of belles-lettres in the real life
«Russian Candide»: philosophizing as a way of life
Russian Rousseauism: adherents and critics
Voltaireanism as a phenomenon of the European culture
Enlightened monarchs: philosophizing as ideology
People of the new epoch: literati and libertines
Utopian worlds of the age of Enlightenment
«La République des lettres» and empires of sophiocrats
The conference comprises the round table dedicated to the 275th anniversary of eminent Russian historian, philosopher and statesman of the Catherinean epoch Prince Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733—1790).
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