Flesh in the Age of Reason

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

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 Rose Cross and the Age of Reason

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.

The Age of Reason

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.

Women Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England

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

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

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment
Author: Jan Golinski
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 304
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.

Faith in the Age of Reason

Faith in the Age of Reason
Author: Jonathan Hill
Publsiher: Lion Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0745951309

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This excellent addition to the Lion Histories series explores one of the most interesting periods of history - the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book begins by describing how the Middle Ages came to an end with the Renaissance and the Reformation, setting the scene for the Enlightenment. Jonathan Hill then takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the central themes and characters of this turbulent period.