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Introducing the Enlightenment - Couverture souple

Spencer, Lloyd

 
9781840461176: Introducing the Enlightenment
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1840461179 ISBN 13 : 9781840461176
Editeur : Icon Books, 2000

Synopsis

The Enlightenment of the 18th century was not only a crucial epoch, a sea-change in human history - it was also a vast moral, scientific and political movement. Intellectuals across Europe and the New World linked up in networks of friendship, projects and debates, and began to free themselves of the authority of the church and find a sense of their own vocation, a calling to rethink the world in secular terms. This volume shows how the leading thinkers of the movement believed that by means of scientific endeavour the essential order of nature could be systematically explained, its processes could be mastered and all of its secrets revealed. The book focuses on three of the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jeffeson.

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Éditeur
Icon Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840461179
ISBN 13 
9781840461176
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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