Secular Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans and The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 . Klappentext The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Jacob, Jacob Margaret
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780691216768
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21676-8
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Religion and Politics, Religion and science, Religion & science, Western philosophy: Enlightenment