The Enlightenment against the Baroque

  Introduction
 expand section1  Pascal's Room, Mandeville's Bees, and Baroque Spending
 collapse section2  "Doing In" the Baroque
 •Were the Court and the Parisian Social Elite of the Eighteenth Century a Consumer Society?
 •Redesigning the Ancien Régime
 •The Earthly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophes
 expand section3  True Taste Recovered and the Baroque Transfigured
  Conclusion: The End of the Baroque and the Invention of Aesthetic Art

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