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Enlightenment
About: Enlightenment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6845 publications have been published within this topic receiving 116832 citations.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Enlightenment: words, images, and symbols in daily life / Broadening the horizon - ways and means / Book and readers / The press / Reason and the dissolution of certainty / Social stability and the underprivileged / State, subject and citizen as discussed by the authors
Abstract: The Enlightenment: words, images, and symbols in daily life / Broadening the horizon - ways and means / Book and readers / The press / Reason and the dissolution of certainty / Social stability and the underprivileged / State, subject and citizen.
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01 Jan 1990TL;DR: The authors show that Scottish religious culture, philosophy, medical education, music and architecture were directly influencing British North America at this time, and the influence of Scottish philosophers such as David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson on the American founding fathers, and vice-versa.
Abstract: Now in paperback this book displaces the notion that 18th-century Scotland and America were mere cultural provinces of England. It shows that Scottish religious culture, philosophy, medical education, music and architecture were directly influencing British North America at this time. 16 contributors including David Daiches, Andrew Hook and Bruce Lenman, focus on 3 main topics: religion and revolution as affected by the work of John Witherspoon; the influence of Scottish philosophers such as David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson on the American founding fathers, and vice-versa; and Scottish thought and culture in early Philadelphia. For those new to the period there is an extensive historiographical introduction, and chapters cover all aspects of the arts and sciences, including music, rhetoric, politics, philosophy, economics, jurisprudence, medicine, architecture and literature.
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: A reading of German intellectual history in the context of European thought is presented in this paper, where the authors argue that writers of the period tried to reconcile traditional Protestant beliefs about God with modern scientific discoveries.
Abstract: A reading of German intellectual history in the context of European thought, this book aims to give insights into the development of the Enlightenment in Germany. It argues that writers of the period tried to reconcile traditional Protestant beliefs about God with modern scientific discoveries.
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