Age of Enlightenment

Age of Enlightenment
Author: Hourly History
Publsiher: Hourly History
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781540742810

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From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about… ✓ The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment ✓ Engaging With Religion ✓ Morality in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Society in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Science and Political Economy ✓ The Enlightenment and the Public ✓ Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.

Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment

Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment
Author: Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781137512765

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This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacy of the Enlightenment at its best.

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Alexander Cook
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317320173

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The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publsiher: Pushkin Collection
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781782275565

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A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writer The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor's court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, they unfold in elegant, sometimes laconic, always gripping prose. Akutagawa's stories are characterised by their stylish originality; they are stories to be read again and again.

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Sarah Eron
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781611495003

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Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to redefine what we mean by secularization in the early stages of modernity, Eron argues that secularization’s link to enthusiasm, or inspiration, often associated with Romanticism, begins in the imaginative literature of the early eighteenth century. If Romantic enthusiasm has been described through the rhetoric of transport, or “unworlding,” then Augustan invocation appears more akin to a process of “worlding” in its central aim to appeal to the social other as a function of the eighteenth-century belief in a literary public sphere. By reformulating the passive structure of ancient invocation and subjecting it to the more dialogical methods of modern apostrophe and address, authors such as the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld formally revise inspiration in a way that generates a new and distinctive representation of the author. In this context, inspiration becomes a social gesture—an apostrophe to a friend or judging spectator or an allusion to the mental or aesthetic faculties of the author himself, his genius. Articulating this struggle toward modernity at its inception, this book examines modern authority at the moment of its extraordinariness, when it was still tied to the creative energies of inspiration, to the revelatory powers that marked the awakening of a new age, an era and an ethos of Enlightenment.

Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment

Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Niall O'Flaherty
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108474474

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Studies the influential tradition of 'theological utilitarianism' in the eighteenth century through the lens of William Paley's life and thought.

Healing for the Age of Enlightenment

Healing for the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Stanley Burroughs
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 954947478X

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The Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:44254006

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Presents information on scientists from the Age of Enlightenment, compiled as part of a student resource on the universe by the University of Michigan. Offers access to sites related to Ada Byrn, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and others.