Bibliograph

The Enlightenment, by Roy Porter

Type

Label

The Enlightenment, by Roy Porter

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Enlightenment

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1003865031

Responsibility statement

by Roy Porter

Series statement

Springer

Summary

After having long been dismissed as a shallow irrelevance, the Enlightenment has now been rehabilitated as a major European movement in ideas and culture. Recent historical writing has shown how it was more than the airy philosophisings of a coterie of intellectuals - but rather a massive reorientation of thought, involving modernization, secularization and the application of science on a grand scale. These trends are surveyed and assessed in this book.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Editors Preface -- A Note on References -- 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? -- Enlightenment and Beyond -- Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter? -- Reading Suggestions -- Index

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