
The Enlightenment
Dorinda Outram(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. September 1995
Book
Hardback
157 pages
978-0-521-41522-4 (ISBN)
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What was the Enlightenment? Was it a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of 'great thinkers', or were there many areas of contradiction and divergence? How far-reaching were its critiques intended to be? Was it a revolutionary body of thought, or was it merely a catalyst for the revolutionary age which followed it? Did it mean the same for men and for women, for rich and poor, or for European and non-European? In this important new textbook Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other, questions about the 'Enlightenment'. She sets the major debates of the period against the broader social changes such as the onset of industrialisation in Western Europe, the establishment of new colonial empires, and the exploration of hitherto unmapped portions of the world's surface. This unique and accessible synthesis of scholarship will be invaluable to any student of eighteenth-century history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
5 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-41522-4 (9780521415224)
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Content
1. What is Enlightenment? 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment; 3. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment; 4. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding; 5. Europe's mirror? The Enlightenment and the exotic; 6. Enlightenment thinking about gender; 7. Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual? 8. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution? Brief biographies; Chronology; Suggestions for further reading.