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The Enlightenment (Studies in European History) - Softcover

Porter, Roy

 
9780333945056: The Enlightenment (Studies in European History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0333945050 ISBN 13: 9780333945056
Verlag: Palgrave, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ancien regime and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of this many-faceted movement.

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ROY PORTER sometime Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He has written widely on the history of medicine, psychiatry and the Enlightenment. His recent books include Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (1991), London: A Social History (1994) and 'The Greatest Benefit to Mankind': A Medical History of Humanity (1997).

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Verlag
Palgrave
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0333945050
ISBN 13 
9780333945056
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
104
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