The Secular City (Philosophy and Religion) - Hardcover

 
9780859894166: The Secular City (Philosophy and Religion)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0859894169 ISBN 13: 9780859894166
Verlag: University of Exeter Press - IPSUK, 1994

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Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth century specialists, illustrate the elaboration of that vision, both in the planning and depiction of actual cities and in the speculation on social justice to which Voltaire in particular devoted himself. Yet even in him, secularization is never total, and the persistence of a displaced religious, even messianic strain in the Enlightenment is also illustrated in a variety of writers, culminating in the contradictions of the French Revolution.

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The City is for the Enlightenment a central preoccupation, that social space where both the utopian and the pragmatic concerns of the eighteenth century come together in a typical tension. Unlike St Augustine's Civitas Dei, this is to be a city of men and women, planning their social geometry, interacting commercially, elaborating, as far as possible, human and secular principles of justice. This collection of specially commissioned essays, all by distinguished eighteenth-century specialists, charts the process from a variety of angles.

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Verlag
University of Exeter Press - IPSUK
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0859894169
ISBN 13 
9780859894166
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
259
Herausgeber
Freeman E., Hemming T. D., Meakin D.
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