The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents / Edition 2

by Margaret Jacob

Overview

Gain insight into The Enlightenment from the eras most influential thinkers as Enlightenment explores the impact this time period had on the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319048860
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Series:	Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written extensively on aspects of the Enlightenment as well as the cultural roots of the First Industrial Revolution. Her works include The First Knowledge Economy, Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe, and The Newtonians and the English Revolution. She has been president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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

Editorial Reviews

A collection of nine documents, written during the Enlightenment, summarizing the political and spiritual movement. A detailed introduction to the period precedes the articles, and describes issues central to understanding the documents, and provides background about the political and social debates of the time. Authors represented include Locke, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and Kant. Jacob (history, U. of California, Los Angeles) also includes reproductions of period art, as well as a chronology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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