What was the Enlightenment?
John Marshall, John Locke, Toleration, and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and “Early Enlightenment” Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), chap.
To answer such questions, it was imperative that scholars and thinkers make an analysis of the role of commerce in ... and Frank D. Lewis, Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade (Philadelphia, PA, 2010).
This 16-hour free course explored the Enlightenment, its impact and the forces of change which led from Enlightenment to Romanticism.
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial.
More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings...
New additions to the document collection include excerpts from Peter Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary as well as The indiscreet jewels, Diderot's novel set in the Congo but clearly aimed at the French court.
Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very ...
More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings...
Eliot , S. and Stern , B. ( eds ) , The Age of Enlightenment , 2 vols ( Milton Keynes : Open University Press , 1979 ) . ... Gray , J. Enlightenment's Wake : Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age ( London : Routledge ...
Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 7–28. ... Enlightenment's Wake Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). See the comments by James ...
This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series is suitable for an upper-level course on the Enlightenment or as a supplementary reader in western civilization, early modern Europe, or modern European history courses.
How did the universe work? How did the human mind learn? What kind of government was best? These are some of the questions that people asked during the Age of Ideas, or the Enlightenment.
An assessment of the Enlightenment period as an influential intellectual movement reveals how it laid the foundation of today's government, philosophy, science and society, noting the pivotal contributions of scholars ranging from Hume and ...
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation : the Science of Freedom
The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS—Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.
How did the universe work? How did the human mind learn? What kind of government was best? These are some of the questions that people asked during the Age of Ideas, or the Enlightenment.
This collection brings together the moral, social, and political ideas of the great eighteenth-century thinkers at the height of their influence. Included here are Voltaire's popularization of Newton's scientific worldview,...
Based on the most recent scholarship, this book provides students and interested lay readers with a basic introduction to key facts and current controversies concerning the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment