Enlightenment

Name: Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780140137453

ISBN-10: 0140137459

ISBN-13: 9780140137453

Edition: 1990

Authors: Norman Hampson

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Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated. In the works of Rousseau, Kant and Goethe, there was discernible a new inner voice, and an awareness of individual uniqueness which had eluded their more self-confident predecessors. The stage was set for the revolutionary crisis and the rise of Romanticism. In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/8/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.80" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English