The Enlightenment A Brief History with Documents
by Jacob, Margaret C.Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-09-16
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
Gain insight into The Enlightenment from the era's most influential thinkers as Enlightenment explores the impact this time period had on the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day.
Author Biography
Margaret C. Jacob (PhD, Cornell University) is distinguished professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely on science, religion, the Enlightenment, freemasonry, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Her first book, The Newtonians and the English Revolution (1976), won the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her most recent monograph is Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (2006). She is currently at work on a book about the first knowledge economy.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Maps and Illustrations
PART ONE
Introduction: The Struggle to Create a New Culture
Political Origins
Scientific and Religious Origins
The Public Sphere
Enlightened Feminism
Reworking Seventeenth-Century Formal Philosophy
A Clandestine Universe
A Protestant Odyssey
Travel Literature
Anglophilia
Mid-Century Crisis
Rousseau
The International Republican Conversation, 1775–1800
Slavery, Imperialism, and the French Revolution
The Legacy of the Enlightenment
PART TWO
The Documents
1. Order and Disorder in Church and State Depicted
2. John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, 1693
3. Peter Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1697
4. Treatise of the Three Impostors, 1719
5. Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation, 1733
6. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters, 1716–1718
7. Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia, 1751
8. Denis Diderot, The Indiscreet Jewels, 1748
9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762
10. Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? 1784
APPENDIXES
An Enlightenment Chronology (1685–1800)
Selected Bibliography
Questions for Consideration
Index
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