Enlightenment And Why It Still Matters

Name: Enlightenment And Why It Still Matters
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ISBN: 9781400060689

ISBN-10: 1400060680

ISBN-13: 9781400060689

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Authors: Anthony Pagden

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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world. Spanning hundreds of years of history, Anthony Pagden traces the origins of this seminal movement, showing how Enlightenment concepts directly influenced modern culture, making possible a secular, tolerant, and, above all, cosmopolitan…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Anthony Pagden is Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University.



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: What Is Enlightenment?



All Coherence Gone



Bringing Pity Back In



The Fatherless World



The Science of Man



Discovering Man in Nature



The Defense of Civilization



The Great Society of Mankind



The Vast Commonwealth of Nature


Conclusion: Enlightenment and Its Enemies


Notes


Bibliography


Index