Antoine Lilti
9 books
About the Author
Antoine Lilti is a historian whose scholarship explores celebrity, sociability, salons, and the Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His work connects cultural history with the study of public life, media, modernity, and changing forms of collective identity. Across books including "L'Invention de la célébrité: 1750-1850," "Le monde des salons: Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (French Edition)," and "L'Héritage des Lumières: Ambivalences de la modernité (Hautes Etudes)," Lilti examines how reputations, ideas, and social worlds are created and transformed. His writing offers nuanced perspectives on the historical roots of contemporary culture.
Common genres
Writing style
analytical
nuanced
erudite
Books by Antoine Lilti
