Roy Porter: The Enlightenment, Second Edition

Cover: 9780333945056 | The Enlightenment, Second Edition | Roy Porter | Taschenbuch | 2001

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Beschreibung

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ancien regime and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of this many-faceted movement.

Über den Autor

Roy Porter was Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Concise and highly readable introduction to a complex subject

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Acknowledgements
What Was the Enlightenment?
The Goal: A Science of Man
The Politics of Enlightenment
Reforming Religion by Reason
Who Was the Enlightenment?
Unity or Diversity?
Movement or Mentalité?
Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter?
Reading Suggestions
Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780333945056
ISBN-10:	0333945050
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Porter, Roy
Auflage:	Second
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Macmillan Education, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße:	203 x 127 x 6 mm
Von/Mit:	Roy Porter
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.03.2001
Gewicht:	0,126 kg