Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Treatise on Religious Toleration. Occasioned by the execution of the unfortunate John Calas, unjustly condemned and broken upon the wheel at Toulouse, for the supposed murder of his own son. Translated from the French ... by the translator of Eloisa, etc
A Treatise on Religious Toleration
Author: VoltaireA Treatise on Religious Toleration
Author: VoltaireA Treatise on Religious Toleration, Occasioned by the Execution of the Unfortunate John Calas Unjustly Condemned and Broken Upon the Wheel at Toulouse for the Supposed Murder of His Own Son
Author: VoltaireThe Enlightenment
Author: J. C. D. ClarkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198916302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot. There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept. Currently 'the Enlightenment' is a term widely accepted across popular culture and in a variety of academic disciplines, notably history, philosophy, political theory, political science, literary studies, and theology; Clark calls for a fundamental reconsideration in each. The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present. It argues that the degree of commonality between social and intellectual movements in each--and, more broadly, between the five societies--has been overstated for polemical purposes. Clark shows that the concept of 'the Enlightenment' was not widely adopted in those societies until the mid-twentieth century; indeed, that it was unknown in the eighteenth. Without the concept, people at the time were unable to act in ways that would have created the Enlightenment as a coherent movement. Since the conventional account has held that the Enlightenment was a phenomenon, the idea could be used as a component of what has been called a 'civil religion': a summing up of the myths of origin, aims, and essential values of a society from which dissent is not permitted. An appreciation that it was instead a historiographical concept undermines, in turn, the idea that there was any great transition to what came to be called 'modernity'.
The Quiet Conquest
Author: Museum of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
L'Angleterre et Voltaire
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Chiefly First Editions
Author: E. Mathews (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description