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The Enlightenment in National Context

Editors:
Roy S. Porter
Mikuláš Teich

Roy Porter, Nicholas Phillipson, Norman Hampson, Simon Schama, Samuel S. B. Taylor, Owen Chadwick, Joachim Whaley, T. C. W. Blanning, Ernst Wangermann, Mikuláš Teich, Tore Frängsmyr, Paul Dukes, J. R. Pole

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Date Published: September 1981
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521282123

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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. It brings out the regional divergences of the Enlightenment experience, shaped by different local intellectual and economic priorities. At the same time it also shows how central concerns (with virtue, patriotism, liberty and modernisation) were shared everywhere, and how the writings of certain key areas (such as France and England) came to be influential elsewhere. The thirteen essays, each written by a historian specialising in the particular country, examine national contexts from Sweden to Italy, from Russia to North America. As well as focusing attention on the interplay of thought and action, ideology and society, the book offers important insights into the place of the intelligentsia in the modern world.

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- Date Published: September 1981
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521282123
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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 Mikuláš 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 Mikuláš Teich
Notes to the text
Further reading
Index.
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Editors
Roy S. Porter
Mikuláš Teich
Contributors
Roy Porter, Nicholas Phillipson, Norman Hampson, Simon Schama, Samuel S. B. Taylor, Owen Chadwick, Joachim Whaley, T. C. W. Blanning, Ernst Wangermann, Mikuláš Teich, Tore Frängsmyr, Paul Dukes, J. R. Pole