Title Statements
- Full title :Enlightenment World
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
Notes
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The Physical Object
- Description:737 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203644690, 0203644697
- oclc:on1203851404
Table of Contents
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Science and the coming of Enlightenment -- The quest for philosophical certainty -- The critique of Christianity -- Enquiry, scepticism and Enlightenment -- The Huguenot debate on toleration -- Introduction -- The Dutch Republic: 'That mother nation of liberty' -- A crucible for change: Enlightenment in Britain -- The itinerary of a young intellectual in early Enlightenment Germany.
-- The Age of Louis XIV and early Enlightenment in France -- Introduction -- Pursuing an enlightened gospel: happiness from deism to materialism to atheism -- Progress and optimism -- The science of man -- Historical writing in the Enlightenment world -- Education and the reproduction of the Enlightenment -- Science and the eighteenth-century public: scientific revolutions and the changing format of scientific investigation -- Introduction -- Feminizing the Enlightenment: the problem of sensibility.
-- Polite worlds of Enlightenment -- Nature and art in Enlightenment culture -- Music and the Enlightenment -- Italian operas and their audiences -- Introduction -- Encyclopae…
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