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Zusatztext 'A triumph ... The volume combines all the best features of the Routledge Worlds series ... in this case we really do have "the best study of the Enlightenment World ever produced".' - Historical Journal'The volume will be of immeasurable help to those who want to explore the moving frontiers of Enlightenment studies! and it will undoubtedly encourage students to look for new challenges.' - English Historical Review Informationen zum Autor Martin Fitzpatrick was formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, the University of Wales, Aberyswyth. He is co-editor of Enlightenment and Dissent. Peter Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Christa Knellwolf is affiliated to the Austrailian National University and co-editor (with Christopher Norris) of 'The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.9.’ Iain McCalman is the Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and general editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832' Klappentext This collection of essays written by leading international experts offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c.1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays written by leading international experts offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c.1720–1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Intellectual Origins of the Enlightenment 2. Early Enlightenment Formations 3. The High Enlightenment 4. Polite Culture and the Arts 5. Material and Popular Culture 6. Reforming the World 7. Transformations and Explorations 7. The Enlightenment and its Critics: Then and Now...
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1. The Intellectual Origins of the Enlightenment 2. Early Enlightenment Formations 3. The High Enlightenment 4. Polite Culture and the Arts 5. Material and Popular Culture 6. Reforming the World 7. Transformations and Explorations 7. The Enlightenment and its Critics: Then and Now
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'It is quite simply the best study of the Enlightenment World ever produced.' - H.T. Dickinson, University of Edinburgh
