Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 275 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511561283
Content:
The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used. It brings out the regional divergences of the Enlightenment experience, shaped by different local intellectual and economic priorities. At the same time it also shows how central concerns (with virtue, patriotism, liberty and modernisation) were shared everywhere, and how the writings of certain key areas (such as France and England) came to be influential elsewhere. The thirteen essays, each written by a historian specialising in the particular country, examine national contexts from Sweden to Italy, from Russia to North America. As well as focusing attention on the interplay of thought and action, ideology and society, the book offers important insights into the place of the intelligentsia in the modern world
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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The Enlightenment in England
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The Scottish Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment in France
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The Enlightenment in the Netherlands
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The Enlightenment in Switzerland
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The Italian Enlightenment
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The Protestant Enlightenment in Germany
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The Enlightenment in Catholic Germany
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Reform Catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian Enlightenment
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Bohemia: from darkness into light
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The Enlightenment in Sweden
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The Russian Enlightenment
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Enlightenment and the politics of American nature
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521237574
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521282123
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521237574
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511561283
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