Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Letters concerning the English Nation. Translated by John Lockman
Author: VoltaireLetters concerning the English nation. [Translated by John Lockman.] A new edition
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Author: VoltaireLetters concerning the English Nation ... The second edition, with large additions. [Translated by John Lockman.]
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Author: VoltaireLetters concerning the English Nation ... The fourth edition. [Translated by John Lockman.]
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Author: VoltairePhilosophical Letters
Author: VoltairePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486426730
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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. Voltaire's observations on English tolerance sounded a revolutionary note among European readers that resonated long after the book's first publication.
Letters Concerning the English Nation
Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Enlightenment and Secularism
Author: Christopher NadonPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739177486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
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.
The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Author: Dennis C. RasmussenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107045002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
William Blake's Religious Vision
Author: Jennifer JessePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739177915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake’s works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological “road signs” he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake’s messages to his intended audiences—sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals—we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley’s theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse’s call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake’s works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like “Blake says” or “Blake believes,” followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake’s respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake’s works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake’s works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.