Enlightenment in the National Context

The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context.

Klappentext
The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context.

Zusammenfassung
The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. The Enlightenment in England Roy Porter; 2. The Scottish Enlightenment Nicholas Phillipson; 3. The Enlightenment in France Norman Hampson; 4. The Enlightenment in the Netherlands Simon Schama; 5. The Enlightenment in Switzerland Samuel S. B. Taylor; 6. The Italian Enlightenment Owen Chadwick; 7. The Protestant Enlightenment in Germany Joachim Whaley; 8. The Enlightenment in Catholic Germany T. C. W. Blanning; 9. Reform Catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian Enlightenment Ernst Wangermann; 10. Bohemia: from darkness into light Mikulá Teich; 11. The Enlightenment in Sweden Tore Frängsmyr; 12. The Russian Enlightenment Paul Dukes; 13. Enlightenment and the politics of American nature J. R. Pole; Afterword Mikulá Teich; Notes to the text; Further reading; Index.

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