| Description |
xxi, 714 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm |
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The Routledge worlds |
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Routledge worlds.
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| Contents |
Section 1: Intellectual Origins of Enlightenment Introduction / Peter Jones -- 1. Science and the coming of Enlightenment / John Henry -- 2. The quest for philosophical certainty / Peter Schouls -- 3. The critique of Christianity / James Dybikowski -- 4. Enquiry, scepticism and Enlightenment / Aaron Garrett -- 5. The Huguenot debate on toleration / Luisa Simonutti -- Section 2: Aspects of Early Enlightenment Formations Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- 6. The Dutch Republic: 'that mother nation of liberty' / Hugh Dunthorne -- 7. A crucible for change: Enlightenment in Britain / Alexander Murdoch -- 8. The itinerary of a young intellectual in early Enlightenment Germany / Martin Mulsow -- 9. The Age of Louis XIV and early Enlightenment France / Martin Fitzpatrick -- Section 3: The High Enlightenment Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- 10. Pursuing an Enlightened Gospel: Happiness from Deism to Materialism to Atheism / Darrin McMahon -- 11. Progress and Optimism / Clare Jackson -- 12. The Science of Man / Christa Knellwolf -- 13. Historical writing in the Enlightenment World / Johnson Kent Wright -- 14. Education and the Reproduction of the Enlightenment / Geraint Parry -- 15. Science and the Eighteenth-century Public: Scientific Revolutions and the Changing Format of Scientific Investigation / Larry Stewart -- Section 4: Polite Culture and the Arts Introduction / Peter Jones -- 16. Feminizing the Enlightenment: the Problem of Sensibility / Jane Rendall -- 17 .Polite Worlds of Enlightenment / Margaret Jacob -- 18. Nature and Art in Enlightenment Culture / John Sweetman -- 19. Music and enlightenment: Rousseau and Rameau / Cynthia Verba -- 20. Italian Operas and their audiences / Peter Jones --Section 5: Material and Popular Culture Introduction / Peter Jones -- 21. Encyclopaedism and Enlightenment / Richard Yeo -- 22 .Enlightenment Print Culture / Carla Hesse -- 23. The appearance of Enlightenment: re-fashioning the Elites / Peter McNeill -- 24. Popular Culture / Nicholas Rogers -- Section 6: Reforming the World Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- 25. The party of the philosophes / David Garrioch -- 26. Enlightenment and government / Eckhart Hellmuth -- 27. Enlightenment, Republicanism and Radicalism / Mark Philp -- 28. The New Economics of the Enlightenment / Kathryn Sutherland -- 29. Making a Better World: Enlightenment and philanthropy / David Garrioch -- 30. Law and Enlightenment / Randall Mcgowen |
| Summary |
"Draws together the work of thirty-nine leading international experts on the European Enlightenment (c1660-1800) to offer informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of this period as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation".--BOOKJACKET |
| Notes |
Released in paperback 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045638
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| Author |
Fitzpatrick, Martin, 1944-
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| LC no. |
2003026266 |
| ISBN |
0415215757 |
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