The Enlightenment : a brief history with documents / Margaret C. Jacob.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment.

Civilization.

Europe--Civilization--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization--18th century--Sources.

Enlightenment--Sources.

Europe--History--17th century.

Europe--History--18th century.

Local Subjects:

Europe--History--17th century.

Europe--History--18th century.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

ix, 197 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2017]

Summary:

"In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period's most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot. New additions to the document collection include excerpts from Peter Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary as well as The indiscreet jewels, Diderot's novel set in the Congo but clearly aimed at the French court. Jacob covers the movement's lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part one. Introduction : the struggle to create a new culture

Political origins

Scientific and religious origins

The public sphere

Enlightened feminism

Reworking seventeenth-century formal philosophy

A clandestine universe

A Protestant odyssey

Travel literature

Anglophilia

Mid-century crisis

Rousseau

The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800

Slavery, imperialism, and the French Revolution

The legacy of the enlightenment

Part two. The documents

1. Order and disorder in church and state depicted

2. Some thoughts concerning education, 1693 / John Locke

3. Historical and critical dictionary, 1697 / Pierre Bayle

4. Treatise of the three impostors, 1719

5. Letters concerning the English nation, 1733 / Voltaire

6. Letters, 1716-1718 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

7. Encyclopedia, 1751 / Denis Diderot

8. The indiscreet jewels, 1748 / Denis Diderot

9. The social contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

10. What is Enlightenment?, 1784 / Immanuel Kant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.

ISBN:

1319048862

9781319048860

OCLC:

952789342