Criticism in the republic of letters: the limits of polemic in the erudite world according to baillet and bayle

Authors

  • Paulo Borges de Santana Júnior Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2021.174231

Keywords:

Criticism, Bayle, Baillet, Republic of Letters, Intellectual controversy, Modern Society

Abstract

Based on two French authors from the end of the 17th century (Baillet and Bayle), this paper aims to highlight how the scholars themselves use the practice of criticism to represent a controversial aspect of knowledge associated with the gradually greater diffusion of books in the public dimension. This characteristic of knowledge together with this new social condition (the increase in the practice of reading) creates a specifically modern requirement that associates freedom of thought not only with private thought (or freedom of belief), but also with the exercise of writing and the access to books of the most diverse contents. On the other hand, this new disposition of the Republic of Letters raises questions
among critics themselves about the limits or regulatory criteria of criticism.

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Author Biography

  • Paulo Borges de Santana Júnior, Universidade de São Paulo

    Bacharel e licenciado em Filosofia (USP), mestre em Filosofia (USP) e doutorando em Filosofia.

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2021-12-30

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No. 45 (2021)

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Santana Júnior, P. B. de. (2021). Criticism in the republic of letters: the limits of polemic in the erudite world according to baillet and bayle. Cadernos Espinosanos, 45, 161-189. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2021.174231

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