The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment
ISBN-10
0521425344
ISBN-13
9780521425346
Series
The Enlightenment
Category
History
Pages
141
Language
English
Published
1995-09-28
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Dorinda Outram

Description

What was the Enlightenment? Was it a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of "great thinkers", or were there many areas of contradiction and divergence? How far-reaching were its critiques intended to be? Was it a revolutionary body of thought, or was it merely the catalyst for a revolutionary age? Did it mean the same for men and for women, for rich and poor, for European and non-European? In this important new textbook Dorinda Outram sets the major debates of the period against broader social changes. This unique and accessible synthesis of scholarship on the "Enlightenment" will be invaluable for any student of eighteenth-century history.

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