Title: Enlightenment shadows /
Authors: Lloyd, Genevieve,
Publisher: Oxford university press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Enlightenment; Philosophy, Modern
Abstract: Genevieve Lloyd presents a new study of the place of Enlightenment thought in intellectual history and of its continued relevance. She offers original readings of a range of key texts, which highlight the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers enacted in their writing - and reflected on - the interplay of intellect, imagination, and emotion.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Kant on enlightenment -- Light and knowledge -- Whose Enlightenment? -- 1.Cosmopolitan Imagining: Montesquieu's Persian Letters -- Tales of travel -- Montesquieu's travellers -- Seraglios, real and imagined -- Truth, interpretation, and tolerance -- 2.In Celebration of Not Knowing: Voltaire's Voices -- What's in a name? -- The Philosophical Dictionary -- Tolerance and religion -- 3.Hume's Sceptic -- The intellectual character of the Sceptic -- Hume and ancient scepticism -- Humean detachment -- The reconstruction of objectivity -- 4.As Seen by Others: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Morals and religion -- Sympathy and imagination -- The impartial spectator -- Fortune and human action -- The `voices' of Adam Smith -- Philosophy and imagination -- 5.`Changing the Common Mode of Thinking': d'Alembert and Diderot on the Encyclopedia -- Maps, trees, and circles -- Judgement and genius --