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Let there be enlightenment : the religious and mystical sources of rationality /

According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Matytsin, Anton M., 1985- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Lux; Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light; Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French Enlightenment; The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public Opinion; Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of Light; Part Two. Veritas; Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of Power
  • Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early Modern ScholasticismThe Aristotelian Enlightenment; Part Three. Tenebrae; Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660-1740; Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century France; Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's Enlightenment; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z