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Philosophical Letters

Author : Voltaire

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 18,58 MB

Release : 2012-06-12

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0486143163

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Book Description

The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.





Enlightenment and Secularism

Author : Christopher Nadon

Publisher : Lexington Books

Page : 421 pages

File Size : 28,1 MB

Release : 2013-04-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0739177486

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Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are designed to be of particular use to those teaching and studying the history of the Enlightenment within a liberal arts curriculum.



Encyclopedia of the Essay

Author : Tracy Chevalier

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1032 pages

File Size : 10,77 MB

Release : 2012-10-12

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1135314101

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Book Description

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies



The Pragmatic Enlightenment

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 40,28 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1107045002

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This is a study of the political and moral thought of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these thinkers exemplify a particularly attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition.