The Enlightenment - Brossura

Outram, Dorinda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521425344 ISBN 13: 9780521425346

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

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 a catalyst for the revolutionary age which followed it? Did it mean the same for men and for women, for rich and poor, or for European and non-European? In this important new textbook Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other, questions about the 'Enlightenment'. She sets the major debates of the period against the broader social changes such as the onset of industrialisation in Western Europe, the establishment of new colonial empires, and the exploration of hitherto unmapped portions of the world's surface. This unique and accessible synthesis of scholarship will be invaluable to any student of eighteenth-century history.

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Descrizione del libro:

This important textbook examines the major intellectual debates of the eighteenth century against the background of broader social changes. It shows that the 'Enlightenment' was not simply a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of 'great thinkers'. Its various critiques were far-reaching, and their effects different in different parts of Europe.

Contenuti:

1. What is Enlightenment? 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment; 3. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment; 4. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding; 5. Europe's mirror? The Enlightenment and the exotic; 6. Enlightenment thinking about gender; 7. Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual? 8. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution? Brief biographies; Chronology; Suggestions for further reading.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521425344
• ISBN 13: 9780521425346
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 157