The Age of Enlightenment. An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Texts. Volume I

Beschreibung

Paperback. This book exploits this attractive charactersitic by including a considerable quantity of material from such figures as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert. To give the reader an idea of the intellectual contect in which these writers worked, the major texts are backed up by a wealth of additional material (much of it no longer easily available) which reflects the wide range of issues and styles characteristic of the eighteenth century. Although not rigidly sub-divided into sections the excerpts have been selected to illustrate certain major themes: the concept of the 'classic' in ;literature; religion and the debate about Providence; politial and economic matters; the Roman Empire and its legacy; architecture, interior decoration and painting; systematic knowledge and science; the problem of patronage. To make this anthology even more accessible each excerpt has its own introduction and is accompanied, where necessary, by explanatory footnotes. 345 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Age of Enlightenment. An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Texts. Volume I

Verlag

Ward Lock Educational/The Open University Press, Great Britain

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0706239210

ISBN-13

9780706239218

Einband

Soft cover

Auflage

Reprint

Zustand

Very Good

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• Literature,classics Poetry and Plays

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