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The Enlightenment.
One of the few self-named historical movements, the Enlightenment in 18th-Century Europe was a powerful intellectual reaction to the dominance of absolutist monarchies and religious authorities. Building upon the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment thinkers--philosophes--set out...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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ABC-CLIO
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Events
- Chapter 1 Historical Overview: Preliminaries, Principles, and Preconceptions
- Chapter 2 Science and the Triumph of Reason: Newton, Locke, and a New Philosophy
- Chapter 3 The Philosophes, the Church, and Christianity
- Chapter 4 The Philosophes, Political Thought, and Enlightened Despotism
- Chapter 5 The Alternative Vision of Montesquieu and Rousseau
- Biographies
- Primary Documents
- Glossary of Selected Terms
- A
- D
- E
- I
- M
- N
- P
- S
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Photographs.