The Enlightenment
Ulrich Im Hof(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 12. September 1994
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-631-17591-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this account, Ulrich Im Hof describes the origins and development of Enlightenment ideas and traces their effects on European and North American thought, politics and society. The author begins with an account of 18th-century European and American intellectual, political and social life. He describes the universities, academies, salons and reading societies from which the principal ideas of the Enlightenment emerged - in philosophy, religion, economics and politics - and he examines their diffusion, interaction and influence. Professor Im Hof concludes by examining the progress of Enlightenment thought in the 19th century, the counter-movement of Romanticism and the degree to which reason and rationality continue to hold sway at the turn of the 20th century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-17591-9 (9780631175919)
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Content
1. The Age 2. A Changing Society 3. Europe and its States 4. The Champions of Enlightenment 5. Utopia and Reform 6. A Window Opened to a Wider World 7. Emancipation - a Release from Age-old Restraints 8. For and Against Radicalization of the Enlightenment 9. The Way Ahead into the Nineteenth Century Appendix.