The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture /
The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A definition and a provisional justification
- A different cosmos
- A new sense of selfhood
- Toward a new conception of art
- The moral crisis
- The origin of modern social theories
- The new science of history
- The religious crisis
- The faith of the philosophers
- Spiritual continuity and renewal.