Title: Enlightenment : Britain and the creation of the modern world /
Authors: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002; Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Publisher: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Philosophy history; Politics history.; Science history; Religion history; Culture history.; Social Change history; Enlightenment Great Britain; Religion; Great Britain Intellectual life; Great Britain History
Abstract: While acknowledging France at the eve of the Revolution as the root of the modern world, Porter also makes a case for considering Britain's importance in catapulting the world into modernity.
Contents: 1. A blind spot? -- 2. The birth of an ideology -- 3. Clearing away the rubbish -- 4. Print culture -- 5. Rationalizing religion -- 6. The culture of science -- 7. Anatomizing human nature -- 8. The science of politics -- 9. Secularizing -- 10. Modernizing -- 11. Happiness -- 12. From good sense to sensibility -- 13. Nature -- 14. Did the mind have a sex? -- 15. Education : a panacea? -- 16. The vulgar -- 17. The pursuit of wealth -- 18. Reform -- 19. Progress -- 20. The revolutionary era : "modern philosophy" -- 21. Lasting light?