The Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. The science of freedom
By Peter GayClaude Lévy - Strauss , an eloquent defender of Rousseau as a social scientist , has movingly portrayed Christian ... see LévyStrauss : “ Jean - Jacques Rousseau , fondateur des sciences de l'homme , ” in Samuel Baud - Bovy , et al .
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The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents
By Margaret C. JacobAll documents are preceded by headnotes, and the volume includes a chronology, map, illustrations, and an updated bibliography and index. A list of Questions for Consideration has also been added for this edition.
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The Enlightenment
By Ronald S. LoveJean le Rond d'Alembert d'Alembert, Jean-le-Rond. 1821–1822. Oeuvres. 5 vols. Paris. The complete works of d'Alembert collected in five volumes, including his philosophical and mathematical writings and Encyclop ́edie articles. ———.
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The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction
By John Robertson... Bill McGuire GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY Robert C. Allen GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger GOD John Bowker THE GOTHIC Nick ... HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson HINDUISM Kim Knott HISTORY John H. Arnold THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin THE ...
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The Enlightenment
By Margaret JacobIn an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day.
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The Enlightenment: Voltaire to Kant
By Frederick Charles CoplestonSeidel , A. Tetens Einfluss auf die kritische Philosophie Kants ( dissert . ) . Leipzig , 1932 . Uebele , W. J. N. Tetens nach seiner Gesamtentwicklung betrachtet mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verhältnisses zu Kant ( Kantstudien ...
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The Enlightenment
By John M. DunnDiscusses various aspects of the Enlightenment including its roots, philosophes, attacks on Christianity, revolt against reason, campaigns to reform society, and legacy.
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The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
By Dan EdelsteinTherefore, by reconsidering the importance of the French esprit philosophique in the Euroean Enlightenment, this book will be of considerable importance for every scholar and student interested in this period.
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
By Ritchie RobertsonRobertson returns to the era’s original texts to show that above all, the Enlightenment was really about increasing human happiness – in this world rather than the next – by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument.
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
By Peter GayThe Enlightenment/Peter Gay.-v.II
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The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition
By Vincenzo FerroneIt is both enlightening and enlightened."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters "This book shines.
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader
By Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca GreensidesThis oustanding sourcebook brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this great period of change.
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The Enlightenment: A Beginner's Guide
By Kieron O'HaraBlamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment...
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The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters
By Anthony PagdenThis book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born.
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The Enlightenment
By Dorinda OutramDid the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the second edition of her book, Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other questions about the Enlightenment.
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The Enlightenment
By Ronald S. LoveOne of the few self-named historical movements, the Enlightenment in 18th-century Europe was a powerful intellectual reaction to the dominance of absolutist monarchies and religious authorities. Building upon the discoveries...
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The Enlightenment
By Norman HampsonIn this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great ...
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The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction
By John RobertsonConsidering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and ...
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
By Ritchie RobertsonThis magisterial history--sure to become the definitive work on the subject--recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
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The Enlightenment
By David Williams, Senior Lecturer in Physics David Williams, BSCThe texts are supported by a lucid introduction exploring their moral, philosophical, political and economic background, enabling the student to grasp both the context and the essence of each argument.