ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

NORMAN HAMPSON

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Izdavač - Penguin Books, Harmondsworth

Godina - 1976

304 strana

18 cm

Edicija - Pelican

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
Preface
Introduction: The Intellectual Background to the Eighteenth Century

A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH
1 The Social and Political Environment, 1715-40
2 Nature and Nature`s God
3 Human Nature: Man and Society
4 The Enlightenment as a Way of Life

NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD
5 The Social and Political Environment, 1740-89
6 The Inner Voice
7 Time as a New Dimension
a. Scientific Time
b. Historical Time
8 The Revolutionary Climacteric

APPENDICES
1 The eighteenth-century life span of some of the more important writers of the Enlightenment
2 Some of the main works of the Enlightenment

Bibliographical Note
Index


`I love that philosophy which raises up humanity wrote Diderot, and his words echo in all the intellectual achievements of the eighteenth century. Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated. In the works of Rousseau, Kant and Goethe there was discernible a new inner voice, and an awareness of individual uniqueness which had eluded their more self- confident predecessors. The stage was set for the revolutionary crisis and the rise of Romanticism.

In this book (previously published as volume four in the Pelican History of European Thought) Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant. On such vexed issues as the role of ideas in the `rise of the middle class` he provides a new and realistic approach linking intellectual and social history.`



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