The enlightenment : a sourcebook and reader /
"At the beginning of the eighteenth century a distinctly modern vision of life was emerging; by its close, revolutions in America and France had revealed new beliefs about human nature, rights and duties, nature and culture, the natural and material worlds, and a new faith in science, technolog...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one : Sources. Human nature
- The search for knowledge
- Religion and belief
- The natural world
- Science and invention
- Political rights and responsibilities
- The development of civil society
- Moral principles and punishments
- Gender and society
- Art, architecture and nature
- Europeans and the wider world
- Radicalism and revolution
- Autobiographical reflections
- Part two : Reader. Modern critical reflections
- Part three : Chronology and further reading.