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Face aux d fis - entre autres politiques - auxquels sont confront s diff rents pays europ ens, les chercheurs dix-huiti mistes ont souhait revenir sur des expressions anciennes de valeurs partag es et les interrogations pass es sur des questions qui restent souvent d'actualit . Au Si cle des Lumi res, nombre d'hommes et de femmes de lettres ont envisag l'avenir du continent en particulier pour ent riner leur souhait de garantir la paix en Europe. Les textes, r unis dans cette anthologie, et sign s des grands crivains du temps (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume ou encore Sta l), comme d'oubli s de l'histoire, pr sentent, avec quelques excursus chronologiques (de Sully
Hugo) les r flexions de penseurs d'un dix-huiti me si cle aux bornes chronologiques tendues - l’ mergence et la chute de l'Empire engendrent des bouleversements nombreux -, sur l'Europe, son histoire, sa diversit , mais aussi sur ce qu'ont en commun les nations qui composent, dans leur vari t , un ensemble g ographique. Ils mettent en vidence les origines historiques d'un projet d'union europ enne, le souhait de consolider les liens du continent avec le Maghreb ou la Turquie, l'importance accord e au commerce et les inqui tudes suscit es par les sursauts de l'histoire, mais aussi l'espoir plac dans les g n rations futures.
La Soci t fran aise d’ tude du XVIIIe si cle, l'Universit d'Augsburg, l'Universit d'Oxford ont g n reusement contribu
la publication de ce volume.
In view of the challenges–many of which are political–that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the 18th century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s future in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. The texts gathered here, and signed by major thinkers of the time (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume or Sta l for instance), as well as by writers history has forgotten, present the reflections, with a couple of chronological extensions (from Sully to Victor Hugo) of authors from the long eighteenth century–the French Empire and the fall of Napoleon generated numerous upheavals–on Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what the nations, which, in all their diversity, make up a geographical unit, have in common. They show the historical origins of the project of a European union, the desire to consolidate the continent’s ties to the Maghreb or to Turkey, the importance granted to commerce and the worries engendered by history’s convulsions, but also the hope vested in future generations.
The Soci t fran aise d’ tude du XVIIIe si cle, Augsburg University and the University of Oxford have generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
