Title: The Enlightenment
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Enlightenment, History, Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis), Historia da europa, Historia moderna (sociedade), Iluminismo, Europe, intellectual life
Places: Europe
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: B802 .I4 1994