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The Enlightenment tradition /
Historians use the term "enlightenment" as both a noun and an adjective. Used as a noun, the term designates a period of exceptionally consistent cultural creativity that lasted from the English Revolution of 1688 to the French Revolution of 1789. When used as an adjective, however, as in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1979
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| Edition: | First California edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The problem of the Enlightenment : Social and ideological bases of the Enlightenment
- 2. Absolute monarchy and class conflict in the eighteenth century
- 3. The Enlightenment as cultural revolution: origins : Montesquieu and the problem of society ; The Persian letters ; The spirit of the laws ; Prevost and the problem of love ; Voltaire and natural religion ; Hume and the problem of God ; Voltaire's Candide: the ethics of Enlightenment
- 4. High Enlightenment : The encyclopedia ; La Mettrie's materialism ; Holbach, Helvetius, and physiocratic theory ; Mechanism, egotism, and fatalism ; Diderot ; Rousseau as the first "modern" man ; Rousseau and the problem of culture ; Rousseau and the problem of society ; Rousseau and the problem of politics
- 5. The limits of Enlightenment: decline and transition : The revolt against nature: Sade as nihilist ; The revolt against nature: Kant as moralist ; Kant's Critique of pure reason ; Kant on reason and morality ; Ethics and aesthetics in Kant's thought ; Kant and Rousseau
- 6. The Enlightenment in Germany : Germany in the eighteenth century ; Goethe: naturalism and humanism ; Goethe's "Werther" ; Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" ; Genesis of German humanism: Leibniz ; Lessing ; Schiller ; Herder.