The Enlightenment world

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This collection of essays written by leading international experts offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation.

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Full title :The Enlightenment world / edited by Martin Fitzpatrick [and others].

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Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Description:1 online resource (xxi, 714 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:0203644697, 9780203644690, 0415215757, 9780415215756, 9786610049868, 6610049866
oclc:ocm57198076
LC Classification:B802
Dewey Decimal:940.2/5

1. Intellectual origins of Enlightment -- Introduction / Peter Jones -- Science and the coming of Enlightenment / John Henry -- The quest for philosophical certainty / Peter Schouls -- The critique of Christianity / James Sybikowski -- Enquiry, scepticism and Enlightenment / Aaron Garrett -- The Huguenot debate on toleration / Luisa Simonutti -- 2. Aspects of Enlightenment formations -- The Dutch Republic : 'that mother nation of liberty' / Hugh Dunthorne -- A crucible for change : Enlightenment in Britain / Alexander Murdoch -- The itinerary of a young intellectual in early Enlightenment Germany / Martin Mulsow -- The age of Louis XIV and early Enlightenment in France / Martin Fitzpatrick -- 3. The high Enlightenment -- Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- Pursuing an enlightenend gospel : happiness from deism to materialism to atheism / Darrin M. McMahon -- Progress and optimism / Clare Jackson -- The science of man / Christa Knellwolf -- Historical writing in the Enlightenment world / Johnson Kent Wright -- Education and the reproduction of the Enlightenment / Geraint Parry -- Science and the eighteenth-century public : scientific revolutions and the changing format of scientif…