The Enlightenment : and why it still matters / Anthony Pagden.

By:

Pagden, Anthony, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : Random House, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781400060689 (alk. paper)
1400060680
9780679645313 (ebook : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.2/5

LOC classification:

B 802 P131e 2013

Contents:

What is Enlightenment? All coherence gone Bringing pity back in The fatherless world The science of man Discovering man in nature The defense of civilization The great society of mankind The vast commonwealth of nature Enlightenment and its enemies

Summary: An assessment of the Enlightenment period as an influential intellectual movement reveals how it laid the foundation of today's government, philosophy, science and society, noting the pivotal contributions of scholars ranging from Hume and Diderot to Voltaire and Rousseau

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-480) and index.

What is Enlightenment?
All coherence gone
Bringing pity back in
The fatherless world
The science of man
Discovering man in nature
The defense of civilization
The great society of mankind
The vast commonwealth of nature
Enlightenment and its enemies

An assessment of the Enlightenment period as an influential intellectual movement reveals how it laid the foundation of today's government, philosophy, science and society, noting the pivotal contributions of scholars ranging from Hume and Diderot to Voltaire and Rousseau

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