In The Eighteenth Century, A Daring And Dramatically New Intellectual And Cultural Movement Arose In Western Europe. Of Its Many Characteristics - Audacity, Wit, An Interest In The Practical And The Applied - None Was More Important Than Its Critical, Biting Edge. This Opinionated Movement Called For Enlightenment For New Thinking About Once Unquestioned Truths And Eventually For New Actions. Best Characterized By The Metaphor Of Light, The Enlightenment Has Retained The Name It Acquired Early In The Eighteenth Century. Pt. 1. Introduction : The Struggle To Create A New Culture -- Political Origins -- Scientific And Religious Origins -- The Public Sphere -- Enlightened Feminism -- Reworking Seventeenth-century Formal Philosophy -- A Clandestine Universe -- A Protestant Odyssey -- Travel Literature -- Anglophilia -- Mid-century Crisis -- Rousseau -- The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 -- Slavery, Imperialism, And The French Revolution -- The Legacy Of The Enlightenment -- A Note About The Text -- Pt. 2. The Documents -- 1. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693 / John Locke -- 2. The Treatise On The Three Impostors, 1719 -- 3. Letters Concerning The English Nation, 1733 / Voltaire -- 4. Letters, 1716-1718 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- 5. Encyclopedia, 1751 / Denis Diderot -- 6. Supplement To Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 / Denis Diderot -- 7. The Social Contract, 1762 / Jean-jacques Rousseau -- 8. What Is Enlightenment?, 1784 / Immanuel Kant -- 9. Jerusalem : Or On Religious Power And Judaism, 1783 / Moses Mendelssohn -- Appendixes -- An Enlightenment Chronology (1685-1800) -- Selected Bibliography. Margaret C. Jacob. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-227) And Index.
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- Literature & Fiction
- History & Criticism
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- History & Criticism
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Author : Jacob, University Margaret C C
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2000-10-04
Number Of Pages : 225
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0312179979
ISBN-13 : 9780312179977
Item weight : 0.55 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 5.4 in x 8.1 in
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