Roads to Modernity The British, French, and American Enlightenments

Name: Roads to Modernity The British, French, and American Enlightenments
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ISBN: 9781400077229

ISBN-10: 1400077222

ISBN-13: 9781400077229

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America. Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Don E. Eberly is the director of the Civil Society Project, a national initiative advancing ideas to strengthen America's social institutions and community life. He is the editor of many books, including "The Content of America's Character: The Recovery of Civic Virtue". Eberly is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, and founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative. He lives in Lancaster, PA.



Preface


Prologue


The British Enlightenment: The Sociology of Virtue



"Social Affections" and Religious Dispositions



Political Economy and Moral Sentiments



Edmund Burke's Enlightenment



Radical Dissenters



Methodism: "A Social Religion"



"The Age of Benevolence"


The French Enlightenment: The Ideology of Reason


The American Enlightenment: The Politics of Liberty


Epilogue


Notes


Index