The age of reason / by Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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A new science : the discovery of religion in the Age of Reason / by Stroumsa, Guy G.

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Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason / by Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

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How data happened : a history from the age of reason to the age of algorithms / by Wiggins, Chris, Jones, Matthew L. (Matthew Laurence), 1972-

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Myth and reason : a symposium

Table of Contents: “…Goethe and Leibniz: myth in the age of reason /…”


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Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging by Donington, Robert

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Collected writings by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Table of Contents: “…Common Sense, The Crisis, and Other Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters -- Rights of Man -- The Age of Reason.…”


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A history of Western morals. by Brinton, Crane, 1898-1968

Table of Contents: “…Origins : the ancient Near East -- Origins : the Jews and the Greeks -- Greece : the great age -- The Greco-Roman world -- The beginnings of the Judaeo-Christian tradition -- The Middle Ages -- The Reformation -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth century -- The age of reason -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- The problem of moral progress -- Conclusion : in which nothing is concluded.…”


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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie by Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the offense -- The Jewish trial of Jesus -- Christianity transforms blasphemy -- Compelling heretics -- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy -- The fires of Smithfield -- Socinian anti-Trinitarians -- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok -- The early English Quakers -- Christianity becomes the law of the land -- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers -- America from 1660 to 1800 -- England's Augustan age of toleration -- Blasphemy and obscenity -- The "Age of reason"? -- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people -- Carlile's shopmen and free expression -- Early American state cases -- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy -- English prosecutions of the 1840s -- Bible burning and a debate revived -- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test -- The age of John W. …”


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Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy by Norwich, John Julius, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Baroque Rome -- 22. The Age of Reason -- 23. The Jesuits and the revolution -- 24. …”


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Building : 3000 years of design engineering and construction by Addis, William, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-A.D. 500 -- The medieval era : 500-1400 -- The Renaissance : 1400-1630 -- Global trading and the age of reason and enlightenment : 1630-1750 -- Engineering becomes a profession : 1750-1800 -- The harmony of theory and practice : 1800-1860 -- The birth of the modern building : 1860-1920 -- Architectural engineering : 1920-1960 -- The computer age and the greening of construction : 1960-present -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Appendix 1. …”


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Dissent : the history of an American idea by Young, Ralph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dissent and America -- The "free aire of a new world" -- Dissent in an age of reason -- Revolution -- Discord in the new republic -- Slavery and its discontents -- Reformers and dissidents -- Expansion and conflict -- Dissent imperils the union -- A nation divides -- Liberation and suppression -- Protest and conflict in the West -- Workers of the world unite! …”


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Discrimination against the mentally ill by Joseph, Monica A.

Table of Contents: “…Changing belief systems and historical treatment of the mentally ill -- Ancient beliefs -- Medieval beliefs -- Modern beliefs -- The Renaissance -- The Reformation -- Beliefs in the Age of Reason -- Early American beliefs -- Moving toward scientific causes of mental illness -- 3. …”


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