Title: The Enlightenment
First published: December 15, 2000
Description: In the eighteenth century, a daring and dramatically new intellectual and cultural movement arose in western Europe. Of its many characteristics - audacity, wit, an interest in the practical and the applied - none was more important than its critical, biting edge. This opinionated movement called for "enlightenment" for new thinking about once unquestioned truths and eventually for new actions. Best characterized by the metaphor of light, the Enlightenment has retained the name it acquired early in the eighteenth century.
Subjects: Civilization, Sources, Enlightenment, Zivilisation, Quelle, Aufklärung, Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis), Europa, Opplysningstid, 1700-tallet, History
Places: Europe
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: CB411 .J327 2001