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The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used. It brings out the regional divergences of the Enlightenment experience, shaped by different local intellectual and economic priorities. At the same time it also shows how central concerns (with virtue, patriotism, liberty and modernisation) were shared everywhere, and how the writings of certain key areas (such as France and England) came to be influential elsewhere. The thirteen essays, each written by a historian specialising in the particular country, examine national contexts from Sweden to Italy, from Russia to North America. As well as focusing attention on the interplay of thought and action, ideology and society, the book offers important insights into the place of the intelligentsia in the modern world.
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The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used.
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The Enlightenment in national context / edited by Roy Porter and Mikulįs Teich
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; First published 1981. Contents; The Enlightenment in England / by Roy Porter -- The Scottish Enlightenment / by Nicholas Phillipson -- The Enlightenment in France / by Norman Hampson -- The Enlightenment in the Netherlands / by Simon Schama -- The Enlightenment in Switzerland / by Samuel S.B. Taylor -- The Italian Enlightenment / by Owen Chadwick -- The Protestant Enlightenment in Germany / by Joachim Whaley -- The Enlightenment in Catholic Germany / by T.C.W. Blanning -- Reform Catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian Enlightenment / by Ernst Wangermann -- Bohemia: from darkness into light / by Mikulį Teich -- The Enlightenment in Sweden / by Tore Frängsmyr -- The Russian Enlightenment / by Paul Dukes -- Enlightenment and the politics of American nature / by J.R. Pole. Subjects; Enlightenment. Europe. Intellectual life. 18th century. Europe. History. 18th century. Philosophy, Modern. 18th century. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 464503
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; First published 1981. Contents; The Enlightenment in England / by Roy Porter -- The Scottish Enlightenment / by Nicholas Phillipson -- The Enlightenment in France / by Norman Hampson -- The Enlightenment in the Netherlands / by Simon Schama -- The Enlightenment in Switzerland / by Samuel S.B. Taylor -- The Italian Enlightenment / by Owen Chadwick -- The Protestant Enlightenment in Germany / by Joachim Whaley -- The Enlightenment in Catholic Germany / by T.C.W. Blanning -- Reform Catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian Enlightenment / by Ernst Wangermann -- Bohemia: from darkness into light / by Mikulį Teich -- The Enlightenment in Sweden / by Tore Frängsmyr -- The Russian Enlightenment / by Paul Dukes -- Enlightenment and the politics of American nature / by J.R. Pole. Subjects; Enlightenment. Europe. Intellectual life. 18th century. Europe. History. 18th century. Philosophy, Modern. 18th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 464503
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