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PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's
ISBN-100312179979
ISBN-139780312179977
eBay Product ID (ePID)244726
Product Key Features
Number of Pages253 Pages
Publication NameEnlightenment : a Brief History with Documents
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
SubjectModern / 18th Century, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorMargaret C. Jacob
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.2/53
Table Of ContentForeword Preface LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART ONE Introduction: The Struggle to Create a New Culture Political Origins Scientific and Religious Origins The Public Sphere Enlightened Feminism Reworking Seventeenth-Century Formal Philosophy A Clandestine Universe A Protestant Odyssey Travel Literature Anglophilia Mid-Century Crisis Rousseau The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 Slavery, Imperialism, and the French Revolution The Legacy of the Enlightenment A Note about the Text PART TWO The Documents 1. John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, 1693 2. Treatise of the Three Impostors, 1719 3. Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation, 1733 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters, 1716-1718 5. Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia, 1751 6. Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's VOYAGE, 1772 7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762 8. Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? 1784 9. Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism, 1783 APPENDIXES An Enlightenment Chronology (1685-1800) Selected Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis brief volume introduces the movement called the Enlightenment that swept through 18h-century Europe affecting all areas of political, religious, and educational life. A variety of selections showcase the writings of a number of Enlightenment figures, including Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. A comprehensive introduction reaches back to the roots of the movement to set up critical background on the political and social debates of the period. All documents are preceded by headnotes, and the volume includes a chronology, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, and an index., In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period's most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. She covers the movement's lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period. All documents are preceded by headnotes, and the volume includes a chronology, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.
