Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 167 pages)
Ausgabe:
First California edition
ISBN:
9780520341289
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0520341287
Inhalt:
Historians use the term "enlightenment" as both a noun and an adjective. Used as a noun, the term designates a period of exceptionally consistent cultural creativity that lasted from the English Revolution of 1688 to the French Revolution of 1789. When used as an adjective, however, as in the "enlightenment tradition," the term denotes a specific attitude of mind that gradually gained ascendancy among European intellectuals during that period
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index
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1. The problem of the Enlightenment : Social and ideological bases of the Enlightenment -- 2. Absolute monarchy and class conflict in the eighteenth century -- 3. The Enlightenment as cultural revolution: origins : Montesquieu and the problem of society ; The Persian letters ; The spirit of the laws ; Prevost and the problem of love ; Voltaire and natural religion ; Hume and the problem of God ; Voltaire's Candide: the ethics of Enlightenment -- 4. High Enlightenment : The encyclopedia ; La Mettrie's materialism ; Holbach, Helvetius, and physiocratic theory ; Mechanism, egotism, and fatalism ; Diderot ; Rousseau as the first "modern" man ; Rousseau and the problem of culture ; Rousseau and the problem of society ; Rousseau and the problem of politics -- 5. The limits of Enlightenment: decline and transition : The revolt against nature: Sade as nihilist ; The revolt against nature: Kant as moralist ; Kant's Critique of pure reason ; Kant on reason and morality ; Ethics and aesthetics in Kant's thought ; Kant and Rousseau -- 6. The Enlightenment in Germany : Germany in the eighteenth century ; Goethe: naturalism and humanism ; Goethe's "Werther" ; Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" ; Genesis of German humanism: Leibniz ; Lessing ; Schiller ; Herder.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520037707
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anchor, Robert Enlightenment tradition Berkeley : University of California Press, 1979, ©1967 ISBN 0520038053
Sprache:
Englisch
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