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Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1960, In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History represents an analysis of the decline of moral and political standards in the 20th century in light of their development during the 17th and 18th centuries. Professor Alfred Cobban not only provides a thorough and comprehensible overview of the political ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers, but also illustrates how these ideas are relevant for our own age....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On All Saints Day of 1755, the tremors from a magnitude 8.5 earthquake swept furiously from its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean toward the Iberian Peninsula. Nowhere was it felt more than in Lisbon, then the thriving capital of a great global empire. In a few minutes most of Lisbon was destroyed--but that was only the beginning. A tsunami swept away most of the ruined coast along the Tagus River and carried untold souls out to sea. When fire broke...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (and sometimes, still is). Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Profiles prominent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century intellectuals--including scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and others--who, during the period known as the Enlightenment, emphasized the use of reason in pursuit of truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pub. Date
2014, ©2012
Language
English
Description
"Explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century 'inquiries after happiness, ' an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of well-being in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 443
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But what is the relationship between the historical Enlightenment...
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