The Enlightenment : a beginner's guide /
"Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, wher...
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Oxford :
Oneworld,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: aspects of Enlightenment
- The genesis and progress of the Enlightenment
- Enlightenments?
- Glimmers of Enlightenment
- Philosophy
- Political theory and the road to revolution
- Nature, reason and science
- Religion in the age of reason
- The arts
- The Enlightenment's legacy
- Conclusions: the Enlightenment today.