The age of reason : the culture of the seventeenth century / by Weinstein, Leo, 1921-

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The age of reason. by Manuel, Frank E. (Frank Edward)

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The age of reason : the eighteenth century / by Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968

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Flesh in the Age of Reason / by Porter, Roy, 1946-2002

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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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Science in Russian culture. by Vucinich, Alexander, 1914-2002

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Men who have walked with God : being the story of mysticism through the ages, told in the biographies of representative seers and saints, with excerpts from their writings and sayi... by Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980

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Man of reason : the life of Thomas Paine by Aldridge, Alfred Owen, 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A civil servant -- The summer time of wit -- An uncivil rebel -- The modern Tacitus -- The Deane Affair -- State clerk and diplomatic agent -- A bonus, a bank, and a bridge -- A political bridge -- The rights of man -- A republican manifesto for France -- The revolution of the world -- Continuation of the rights of man -- Where liberty is not -- The rights of man on trial -- A king on trial -- A firebrand on trial -- In Luxembourg Prison -- Return to the convention -- The age of reason -- Friendship with Monroe -- Amateur diplomat once more -- Relations with the directory -- Baltimore and Washington -- New Rochelle and New York -- Jarvis and Carpenter -- The defense of New York -- Feud with Cheetham -- Last days -- Recapitulation.…”


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Rebel! : a biography of Tom Paine by Gerson, Noel B. (Noel Bertram), 1914-1988, Edwards, Samuel, 1914-1988

Table of Contents: “…Corset maker extraordinary -- In the King's service, more or less -- The immigrant editor -- Common sense -- The times that tried men's souls -- The peripatetic patriot -- A feud with Silas Deane -- Semiprivate citizen -- An American in Paris -- A time that tried one man's soul -- High and low finance -- Bearding the British Lion -- The rights of man -- The lion's roar -- On the rise -- On the decline -- A prison term -- A question of release -- The age of reason -- A reputation restored -- George Washington, my enemy -- Free in Paris -- Bonaparte and other complications -- The prodigal returns -- A disillusioned hero -- Forty five minutes from Broadway -- The man with thin skin.…”


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A history of Western philosophy. by Jones, W. T. (William Thomas), 1910-1998

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Renaissance -- The Reformation -- Science and scientific method -- Hobbes -- Descartes -- Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Locke -- Berkeley -- Hume -- The age of reason -- Kant: theory of knowledge -- Kant: theory of value -- Romanticism and the reaction against Kantianism -- Social philosophy and the theory of evolution -- The contemporary scene.…”


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2000 years of Christian art by Newton, Eric, 1893-1965, Neil, William, 1909-1979

Table of Contents: “…[Part] I : Early Christian -- Faith and symbol / Eric Newton -- Christianity and the arts / William Neil -- [Part] II : Byzantine -- The forms of the otherworldly / Eric Newton -- Catacombs, mosaics and monasteries / William Neil -- [Part] III : Romanesque and gothic -- the mediaeval craftsmen / Eric Newton -- The faith that build the cathedrals / William Neil -- [Part] IV : Renaissance -- The triumph of physical form / Eric Newton -- Christian humanism / William Neil -- [Part] V : Mannerism and baroque -- Theatrical art and protestant realism / Eric Newton -- The reformation conflict / William Neil -- [Part] VI : Allegory and decoration / Eric Newton -- The age of reason / William Neil -- [Part] VII : Nineteenth century -- The recovery of sincerity / Eric Newton -- An age of ferment and renewal / William Neil -- [Part] VIII : Twentieth century -- Christian art in a secular age / Eric Newton -- Disillusionment and hope / William Neil.…”


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Great Britain since 1688 : a modern history by Smellie, K. B. (Kingsley Bryce), 1897-1987

Table of Contents: “…The economic setting, 1688-1760 -- The revolution of 1689 and the world of Walpole -- Britain and the world, 1688-1763 -- The beginnings of modern industry, 1760-1815 -- A balanced constitution, 1760-1815 -- Britain's wars with the revolutions, 1760-1815 -- The age of reason in British thought -- The workshop of the world, 1815-70 -- Wellington to Gladstone -- Sea power and the balance of power -- Economic vicissitudes, 1870-1914 -- The preface to democracy, 1867-1914 -- Sea power and imperial powers -- British thought from Blake to Darwin -- World War I and after, 1914-39 -- Aspects of democracy, 1914-39 -- The end of laissez faire, 1914-39 -- World War II and the atomic age -- The price of victory and the cost of welfare -- Politics and government, 1939-61 -- British thought, 1870-1960.…”


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The making of the modern mind : a survey of the intellectual background of the present age by Randall, John Herman, Jr., 1899-1980

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The intellectual outlook of medieval Christendom -- The coming of age of the western peoples -- The world as the scene of the drama of salvation -- The chief end of man--The enjoyment of eternal life -- The embodiment--The City of God -- The embodiment--Lay society -- The new world of the Renaissance -- The new interests of the modern age--The natural man -- The religious reaction--The revolt from the medieval Church -- The revolt from feudalism and a united Christendom -- The new interests of the modern age--The world of nature -- The new scene of human life -- The order of nature--The development of thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Newtonian world-machine -- The religion of reason -- The science of man--The sciences of human nature and business -- The science of man--The science of government -- The morality of reasonableness: humanitarianism -- The growing world--Thought and aspiration in the last hundred years -- The romantic protest against the age of reason -- The conflict of social ideals to 1848 -- The world conceived as a process of growth and evolution -- The science of man in the growing world -- Religion in the growing world -- Philosophic reactions to the growing world of mechanism and naturalism -- Social ideals in the growing world.…”


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The development of academic freedom in the United States, by Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970

Table of Contents: “…The age of the college / Richard Hofstadter : The European heritage : Corporate power in the middle ages ; Personal freedom in the middle ages ; Faith, reason, and communication ; The new learning and the new science ; The idea of toleration -- Harvard college from Dunster to Leverett : The colony and the college ; The Dunster case ; The decline of the holy commonwealth ; The emergence of Harvard liberalism -- The colonial colleges : The American pattern: denominational sponsorship ; The American pattern: lay government ; The beginnings of lay government ; The archetypes of lay government ; Support and control -- Religion, reason, and revolution : Sectarianism and restraint ; Sectarianism at yale ; Unitarianism at Harvard ; The secularization of learning ; Politics and revolution -- The old-time college, 1800-1860 : The great retrogression ; The old college system ; Presbyterians and partisans ; Slavery and abolition ; The idea of academic freedom -- The age of the university / Walter P. …”


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The story of art by Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : the nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past.…”


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