Title: The Enlightenment /
Authors: Outram, Dorinda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Enlightenment; Europe Intellectual life
Abstract: What is Enlightenment? - Coffee houses and consumers: the social context - Enlightenment and government - Political economy - Exploration, cross-cultural contact and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment - When people are property: the problem of slavery - Enlightenment thinking about gender - Science and the Enlightenment - The rise of modern paganism?: religion and the Enlightenment - The end of the Enlightenment.
Contents: What is enlightenment? -- Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of enlightenment -- Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual? -- Political economy : the science of the state and the market -- Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment -- When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment -- Enlightenment thinking about gender -- Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding -- The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment -- The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?