The Enlightenment
Subtitle: and why it still matters
By: Anthony Pagden
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9781400060689
Subjects: Enlightenment
Description: An assessment of the Enlightenment period as an influential intellectual movement reveals how it laid the foundation of today's government, philosophy, science and society, noting the pivotal contributions of scholars ranging from Hume and Diderot to Voltaire and Rousseau.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-480) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Enlightenment?; title: All coherence gone; title: Bringing pity back in; title: The fatherless world; title: The science of man; title: Discovering man in nature; title: The defense of civilization; title: The great society of mankind; title: The vast commonwealth of nature; title: Enlightenment and its enemies.