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Flesh in the Age of Reason
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Allan Lane |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Body and soul in literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015060009936 |
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The gloomy, anguished fears and concerns of the great English writers of the Civil War period (Milton, Bunyan et all) are in many ways completely baffling and alien to us and yet 150 years later with writers such as Byron we feel totally at home with their view of the world. How did this extraordinary change happen? How did we become modern? lifetime's work, offering an account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write in English.
Flesh in the Age of Reason
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2005-01-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780141912257 |
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'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week In this startlingly brilliant sequel to the prize-winning ENLIGHTENMENT Roy Porter completes his lifetime's work, offering a magical, enthusiastic and charming account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write English.
The Age of Reason
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publsiher | : Kensington Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Deism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105049351179 |
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Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view -- embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" -- its critical and objective examination of Old and New Testaments cites numerous contradictions.
The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason
Author | : Christopher McIntosh |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1992-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004246782 |
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This the first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century German Rosicrucian revival and, in particular, of the Gold und Rosenkreuz (Golden and Rosy Cross) order. It examines the order's relationship to the Enlightenment and its influence on the cultural, political and religious life of its age.
Women Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England
Author | : Sarah Apetrei,Sarah Louise Trethewey Apetrei |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521513968 |
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A pioneering study of the origins of feminist thought in late seventeenth-century England.
Religion Magic and Science in Early Modern Europe and America
Author | : Allison P. Coudert |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9798216138112 |
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This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.
British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment
Author | : Jan Golinski |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226302065 |
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Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate’s role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reading the Enlightenment through the ideas, beliefs, and practices concerning the weather, Jan Golinski aims to reshape our understanding of the movement and its legacy for modern environmental thinking. With its combination of cultural history and the history of science, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment counters the claim that Enlightenment progress set humans against nature, instead revealing that intellectuals of the age drew characteristically modern conclusions about the inextricability of nature and culture.
Placing the Enlightenment
Author | : Charles W. J. Withers |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226904078 |
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The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized—its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance—the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Placing the Enlightenment will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world.