Introducing the Enlightenment
A Graphic Guide
Published on 3. September 2015
176 pages
978-1-78578-006-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in human history - a vast moral, scientific and political movement, the work of intellectuals across Europe and the New World, who began to free themselves from despotism, bigotry and superstition and tried to change the world. "Introducing The Enlightenment" is a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, the men and women who believed that rational endeavour could reveal the secrets of the universe.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2010
Icon Books
€11.50
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Persons
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Let There Be Light...
- The Radiance of the Absolute Monarchs
- Paris, the Capital of the Enlightenment
- Beginnings of the Light
- England's "Glorious Revolution"
- An Age of Revolutions
- Coffee-houses, Social Clubs and Journalism
- Locke's "Tabula Rasa"
- The Language of the Self
- Understanding the Limits of Our Understanding
- Psychology and the Novel
- Tristram Shandy
- Locke's Social Influence
- Fictions in the Service of Truth
- The Adventures of ...
- Philosophers' Novels
- Candide
- Novels of the Enlightenment
- The Idea of the Noble Savage
- The Persian Letters
- Voltaire Flees to England
- Letters on England
- Voltaire on Religion in England
- Freedom of Conscience and the Commercial Spirit
- On Parliament
- The Patron Saints of the Enlightenment
- The Father of Experimental Philosophy
- John Locke's Politics
- Isaac Newton
- The Philosophes
- Enlightened Woman
- Enlightened Mistresses
- Readers and Censors
- Industry and Science
- The Encyclopédie
- The Tree of Knowledge
- Who Are the "Great Men" of History?
- The Importance of Crafts or Trades
- Metaphysics and Machinery
- The Pinnacle of Success
- The Philosophes Under Attack
- The Crisis of 1758
- Malesherbes - or "Monsieur Guillaume"
- For and Against the King
- The Adventures of Monsieur Guillaume
- Denis Diderot
- The "Secret History" of His Soul
- Diderot and Friends
- What is an Encyclopédie?
- Art of the Enlightenment
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)
- Rousseau's Challenge
- Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
- Voltaire vs. Rousseau
- Nature and Natural History
- Nature as a System: Linnaeus
- Nature as History: Buffon
- The Scandal of Materialism
- La Mettrie and Helvétius
- Materialism and the Improvement of Human Beings
- Holbach
- The Factory of Freethinkers
- D'Alembert's Dream
- The Dream
- The French Parlements
- Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
- Natural Law
- An Unkempt Masterpiece
- Individual Liberty and The Rule of Law
- Enlightening the Despots
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Catherine the Great of Russia
- Instructions to the Empress
- The Priest and the Philosopher
- Philosophers Will Never Form a Religious Sect
- The Catholic Church in France
- The Age of Enlightenment as an Age of Faith
- The Social Necessity of Religion
- Putting the Fear of Hell ...
- The Church, the State and Civil Rights
- Freemasonry
- The Great Watchmaker
- The Scepticism of David Hume
- A Treatise of Hum(e)an Nature
- Music of the Enlightenment
- Savage Rousseau
- Voyage to the Interior
- Rousseau's Confessions
- The First Romantic
- Adam Smith (1723-90)
- A Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Wealth of Nations, 1776
- The Invisible Hand
- Smith and Rousseau
- Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
- Smith Joins Dr Johnson's Literary Club
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
- The American Revolution
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- The Poor and the Slaves
- Condemnation of Slavery
- The Defence of Slavery
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- What is Enlightenment?
- The Counter-Enlightenment
- Georg Hamann (1730-88)
- Language, the Organon* of Reason
- Sturm und Drang
- Voltaire at Ferney
- A One-Man Amnesty International
- The Canaille
- Crisis in the Old Régime
- The French Revolution
- The End of the Enlightenment
- The Apotheosis of Jean-Jacques
- The Ideal Republic
- The Enlightenment Project - Finished or Unfinished?
- Further Reading
- Index
