The Enlightenment
By: Ulrich Im Hof ; translated from the German by William E. Yuill.
Series: The Making of Europe
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Enlightenment -- Europe.; Europe -- History -- 18th century.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Description: Im Hof describes the universities, academies, salons, and reading societies from which the principal ideas of the Enlightenment occured, and he examines their diffusion, interaction, and influence. Ideas evolved from the enlightenment include the idea o f Natural Right, laissez faire economics, and the freedom of the subject, and provided the basis for democracy, enlightened despotism, and anarchy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-303) and index.