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• 1. What is Enlightenment?--
• 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment--
• 3. Enlightenment and government-- new departure or business as usual?--
• 4. Political economy: the science of the state and the market--
• 5. Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment--
• 6. When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment--
• 7. Enlightenment thinking about gender--
• 8. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding--
• 9. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment--
• 10. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?-- Brief biographies-- Suggestions for further reading.
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Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the third edition of her acclaimed book, Dorinda Outram addresses these and other questions about the Enlightenment as controversy increases about its place at the foundation of modernity. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a new chapter on political economy, a completely revised further reading section and a new feature on electronic sources to stimulate primary research. This accessible overview will be essential reading for students of eighteenth-century history, philosophy and the history of ideas.
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• Streit um die Humanität : Polyphonie und Kakophonie des Aufklärungszeitalters / Richard Faber
• Klassischer und moderner Humanismus : die Rolle der Intellektuellen in Europa / Hauke Brunkhorst
• Verba obstrepunt : Sprache und Aufklärung / Jürgen Trabant
• "Aus so grosser Finsternis ein so helles Licht" : Antike und Aufklärung / Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier
• Skepsis und Aufklärung : der Fall des historischen Pyrrhonismus / Andreas Urs Sommer
• Ambivalenzen der Aufklärung am Beispiel weiblicher Bildung / Christa Kersting
• Voltaires Lettres philosophiques : ein Manifest der Aufklärung / Brunhilde Wehinger
• Radikale Politik : Rousseau und die Aporien der Aufklärung / Helmut Pfeiffer
• Zivile Helden : zur Theaterkultur der spanischen Aufklärung / Peter Jehle
• Heinrich Friedrich Diez, 1751-1817 : Kanzleydirektor, Freygeist und Freund der Juden / Manfred Voigts
• Aufklärerische Prägung und gegenaufklärerische Nutzung : vermeintliche Neuentdeckungen und alte Defizite der Hebel-Forschung / Guido Bee
• Was heisst aufklären? : zur Aktualität von Moses Mendelssohns Aufklärungsverständnis / Christoph Schulte
• Aufklärung gegen Aufklärung : Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis Kampf gegen die Herrschaft der Vernunft / Walter Jaeschke
• Über Wahrheit und Lüge des kategorischen Imerativs : eine Kant-Kritik / Caroline Heinrich.

• List of illustrations-- Chronology--
• 1. What is Enlightenment?--
• 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment--
• 3. Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual?--
• 4. Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment--
• 5. When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment--
• 6. Enlightenment thinking about gender--
• 7. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding--
• 8. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment--
• 9. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?-- Brief biographies-- Suggestions for further reading-- Index.
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Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the second edition of her book, Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other questions about the Enlightenment. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a fresh introduction, a new chapter on slavery, and new material on the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon. The bibliography and short biographies have been extended. This accessible synthesis of scholarship will prove invaluable reading to students of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and the history of ideas.
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• Part 1. Sources
• 1. Human nature
• 2. The search for knowledge
• 3. Religion and belief
• 4. The natural world
• 5. Science and invention
• 6. Political rights and responsibilities
• 7. The development of civil society
• 8. Moral principles and punishments
• 9. Gender and society
• 10. Art, architecture and nature
• 11. Europeans and the wider world
• 12. Radicalism and revolution
• 13. Autobiographical reflections
• Part 2. Reader
• 14. Modern critical reflections Part Three: Chronology and further reading.
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By the end of the eighteenth century a distinctly modern vision of life was emerging. The revolutions in America and France revealed new beliefs about human nature, rights and duties, the natural and material worlds, and a new faith in science, technology and the idea of progress. As people began to change the way they thought about themselves and the world around them, a whole new way of thinking developed, which still has an overwhelming impact two centuries on. The Enlightenment brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers such as Hobbes, Rousseau, Diderot and Kant, to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this period in history. Extracts are gathered thematically into sections on such aspects of the Enlightenment as: political theory religion and belief art and nature. All essays are introduced and a final section on 'Critical Reflections' provides a selection of modern critical opinions on the period by writers including Foucault, Habermas, and Lyotard.
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• 1. What is Enlightenment?
• 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment--
• 3. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment--
• 4. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding--
• 5. Europe's mirror? The Enlightenment and the exotic--
• 6. Enlightenment thinking about gender--
• 7. Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual?
• 8. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution? Brief biographies-- Chronology-- Suggestions for further reading.
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What was the Enlightenment? Was it a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of 'great thinkers', or were there many areas of contradiction and divergence? How far-reaching were its critiques intended to be? Was it a revolutionary body of thought, or was it merely a catalyst for the revolutionary age which followed it? Did it mean the same for men and for women, for rich and poor, or for European and non-European? In this important new textbook Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other, questions about the 'Enlightenment'. She sets the major debates of the period against the broader social changes such as the onset of industrialisation in Western Europe, the establishment of new colonial empires, and the exploration of hitherto unmapped portions of the world's surface. This unique and accessible synthesis of scholarship will be invaluable to any student of eighteenth-century history.
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• Introduction and Acknowledgements What Was the Enlightenment? The Goal: A Science of Man The Politics of Enlightenment Reforming Religion by Reason Who Was the Enlightenment? Unity or Diversity? Movement or Mentalite? Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter? Reading Suggestions Index.
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The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the "ancien regime" and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the scholarship, it offers a comprehensive vision of this many faceted movement.
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• Introduction / Armelle St-Martin et Sante A. Viselli
• Géographies des Lumières
• Le Paris italien du premier XVIIIe siècle
• La bibliothèque du curé Juan Antonio de Olavarrieta, victime de l'Inquisition au temps de la Révolution
• La police de Lisbonne dans les récits de voyageurs au XVIIIe siècle
• Du gracioso à Arlequin : le jeu comique dans les adaptations scéniques de Samson
• Les Femmes curieuses de Carlo Goldoni et le débat sur la franc-maçonnerie à Venise et en Italie durant les années 1750
• Martinho de Mendonça : un représentant des Lumières portugaises
• L'Italie dans La nouvelle Héloïse
• Niccolè Machiavelli et la notion de politique en Italie à l'époque des Lumières
• L'abbé Galiani et la France des Lumières
• Identité nationale et altérités religieuses dans le Voyage en Italie du Père Jean-Baptiste Labat.

"Ce volume est le reflet d'un atelier qui s'est tenu à Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) du 16 au 19 septembre 2009. Cette rencontre est née du désir de réunir des chercheurs intéressés par la problématique de la circulation des idées comme des personnes entre la France, l'Italie et la péninsule ibérique au cours du XVIIIe siècle. Nous avons utilisé le terme "Lumières" dans son acception philosophique élargie et courante, tout en rappelant que les "Lumières" ont aussi signifié un ensemble de valeurs associées à un espace géographique précis, celui de la France. Toutefois, dans un sens comme dans l'autre, nous avons choisi une approche souple : en mettant entre parenthèses la référence commune de Paris en tant que point central de diffusion des Lumières, mais aussi en optant pour le décloisonnement des disciplines. En somme, nous avons privilégié une perspective dans laquelle l'Italie, l'Espagne et le Portugal sont appréhendés comme des centres actifs des Lumières. Il est apparu tout au long de nos discussions que cette effervescence intellectuelle se donne à voir autant dans la philosophie que dans l'histoire culturelle. Or, si l'on insiste pour se représenter Paris comme le centre des Lumières européennes, une enquête sur la musique et le théâtre montre que la capitale, en ce début du siècle, est avant tout un Paris italien."--P. [4] of cover.

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings - and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. This study describes the first Western encounters with shamanic peoples and practices. The author views the 18th century as an age in which explorers were fascinating all Europe with tales of shamans who accomplished a "self-induced cure for a self-induced fit". Reports from what must have seemed a forbidden world of strange rites and moral licentiousness came from botanists, geographers, missionaries and other travellers of the period. These accounts created such a stir that they permeated cafe talk, journal articles and learned debates, giving rise to plays, encyclopaedia articles, art and operas about shamanism.
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• 1: Introduction: Radical Enlightenment and 'Modernity' Part I: The Origins of Democratic Modernity
• 2: The Rise of Democratic Republicanism
• 3: From Radical Renaissance to Radical Enlightenment
• 4: From Radical Reformation to the Cercle Spinoziste
• 5: English 'Deism' and its pre-1700 Roots
• 6: Great 'Moderates' and the Temptations of the Radical: Montesquieu and the Forbidden
• 7: D'Holbach against Voltaire and Rousseau: a triangular battle of Political Thought Systems
• 8: Revolution without Violence: The Nordic Model Part II: Human Rights and Revolution (1770-1830)
• 9: Parallel Revolutions: America and France (1774-1793)
• 10: General Will' and The Invention of Universal and Equal Human Rights (1750-1789)
• 11: Emancipating Women: Marriage, Equality, and Female Citizenship (1775-1815)
• 12: From Classical Economics to post-Classical redistributive Economics (1775-1820)
• 13: Reforming Europe's Law Codes
• 14: Unity of Humanity: Race Theory and the Equality of Peoples
• 15: Unity of Humanity: Property, Class, and the Emancipation of Man Part III: Revolution and Competing Revolutionary Ideologies (1789-1830)
• 16: Robespierre anti-philosophe, Or, the Battle of Ideologies during the French Revolution
• 17: The Swiss Revolution and the Hard Climb to Democratic Republicanism (1782-1848)
• 18: The Belgian Revolution (1787-1794)
• 19: Enlightening against Robespierre (and Napoleon): the Ecoles centrales (1792-1804)
• 20: Revolution and the Universities: Germany's 'Philosophy Wars' (1780-1820)
• 21: Radicalism and Repression in the Anglo-American World (1775-1815)
• 22: The American Connection
• 23: The Spanish Revolution (1808-1823)
• 24: Black Emancipation, Universal Emancipation and the Haitian Revolution (1775-1825) Part IV: The Enlightenment that Failed
• 25: Reaction and Radicalism: Germany and the Low Countries (1814-1830)
• 26: British Philosophical Radicalism (1814-1830)
• 27: Failed Restoration in France (1814-1830)
• 28: Bolivar and Spinoza
• 29: Karl Marx and the Left's Turn from Radical Enlightenment to Socialism (1838-1848)
• 30: Conclusion: The 'Radical Enlightenment Thesis' and Its Critics.
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The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression, gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. The Enlightenment that Failed relates both the American and the French revolutions to the Enlightenment in a markedly different fashion from how this is usually done, showing how both great revolutions were fundamentally split between bitterly opposed and utterly incompatible ideological tendencies. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness, in the 1830s and 1840s by the rise of Marxism and other forms of socialism.
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• Politics and Philosophy / Politique et Philosophie
• From Natural Rights to Human Rights ? The Case of Emer de Vattel's Le Droit des Gens (1758)
• Feeling Free ? The Sentimental Foundations of Political Liberty in the German Enlightenment
• Qu'est-ce qu'une pensée libre ? Dialogue intérieur, conversation et liberté d'expression chez Kant
• Religion
• La notion de liberté au prisme des récits de mission jésuites dans les Amériques : l'exemple des Lettres édifiantes et curieuses (1702-1776)
• La liberté du mariage pour les ecclésiastiques : un aspect des rapports État-Église entre réformisme éclairé et Révolution
• Freedom from Institutionalised Religion : The Liberating Potential of Ludvig Holberg' s Historical Narrative of Christianity
• Literature and Culture / Littérature et Culture
• "The Warriour Dwindled to a Beau" : The War on Adopting French Language and Manners in 18`''-Century Britain
• "Who is it that thou Callest a Slave ?" : Oriental Despotism and Enlightenment Liberty in Frances Sheridan's
• The History of Nourjahad
• Les libertés auctoriales au XVIIIe siècle : absolu, passions et contraintes. Rétif de la Bretonne
• La liberté théâtrale en Révolution : libération et révolution de l'activité dramatique en France de la fin de l'Ancien Régime au Premier Empire napoléonien
• Performing Enlightenment Freedom : Rousseau and Diderot on the Paradoxes of Moral Action
• Thomas Paine and Poetic Liberty Scott CLEARY
• Poetic Liberties in the 1790s : John Thelwall and Some Contemporaries
• Enlightenment Sexual Anthropology : Three Writers and a Caricaturist
• Contributors / Contributeurs.

"Cet ouvrage rassemble quatorze articles présentés lors du Séminaire international des jeunes dix-huitiémistes de la Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle (SIEDS ISECS) qui s'est tenu à l'Université d'Indiana à Bloomington (États-Unis), du 2 au 7 juillet 2012. Le thème du séminaire, "Libertés des Lumières", a inspiré une diversité d'approches reflétant celle des conceptions de la liberté au XVIIIe siècle. Les études réunies dans ce volume relèvent d'une pluralité de disciplines, depuis l'histoire, la philosophie et la littérature jusqu'aux sciences politiques et aux études religieuses, en passant par l'histoire de l'art et du théâtre. A ce caractère interdisciplinaire de l'ouvrage s'ajoute une dimension pleinement européenne et atlantique, puisque s'y trouvent prises en compte l'Europe occidentale, la Scandinavie et l'Amérique coloniale."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface List of contributors Introduction: The Enlightenment: something to think about Martin L. Davies
• 1. What does thinking about the Enlightenment mean?
• 2. Enlightenment finality
• 3. The demise of a 'great truth' Thinking about Kant and the Enlightenment
• 1. Kant's Concept of Enlightenment: its Individual and Universal Dimensions Olga Poznjakova
• 2. Rethinking Kant's Immaturity in Arendt's Post-Totalitarian Reflection Tatiana Weiser Thinking about Enlightenment and Politics
• 3. The Enlightenment, Encyclopedism and the Natural Rights of Man: The Case of the Code of Humanity (1778) Luigi Delia
• 4. Deliberative Democrats as the Heirs of Enlightenment: Between Habermas and Dewey John Min Thinking about Enlightenment and Religion
• 5. Christianity and Enlightenment: Two hermeneutical Approaches to their Relationship Salvatore Muscolino
• 6. The Enlightenment Legacy and European Identity. Reflections on the Cartoon-Controversy Carsten Meiner Thinking about Enlightenment and Gender
• 7. Between Shadow and Light: Women's Education Christophe Regina
• 8. "Race", "Sex", and "Gender": Intersections, Naturalistic Fallacies, and the Age of Reason Carina Pape Thinking about Enlightenment and its Limits
• 9. Adoption as a Limit-Case for Enlightenment: Lessing's Nathan der Weise and Kleist's Der Findling David D. Kim
• 10. From Unsocial Sociability to Antagonistic Society (and back again): The historical role and social-scientific presence of an anthropological trope Tilman Reitz Postscripts: Thinking about Enlightenment thinking
• 11. Multiple Counter-Enlightenments: The Genealogy of a Polemics from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Theo Jung
• 12. 'The Proper Study of Mankind': Enlightenment and Tautology Martin L. Davies Index.
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Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications of its thinking since the eighteenth century. Together, they consider whether modernity can see its roots in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The collection is divided into six sections, preceded by a comprehensive introduction to the field and the most recent scholarship on the period. Across the sections, the contributors consider modern day encounters with Enlightenment thinking, including Kant's moral philosophy, the conflict between reason and faith, the significance of the Enlightenment of law and the gender inequality that persisted throughout the eighteenth century. By examining specific encounters with the problematic results of Enlightenment concerns, the contributors are able to illuminate and offer new perspectives on topics such as human nature, race, politics, gender and rationality. Drawing from history, philosophy, literature and anthropology, this book enables students and academics alike to take a fresh look at the Enlightenment and its legacy in the modern world.
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• Aufklärung : Epoche, Projekt und Forschungsaufgabe : Einleitung / Stefanie Stockhorst
• Frühe Neuzeit : frühe Aufklärung : Epochenprobleme / Gerhard Sauder
• Aufklärung und Esoterik : Anmerkungen zu einem komplexen Verhältnis / Monika Neugebauer-Wölk
• Ist Josephinismus Aufklärung? / Wolfgang Schmale
• Feindliche Geschwister? : der Pietismus als Widersacher und Weggefährte der Aufklärung : Sachverhalte und Forschungslage / Hans-Jürgen Schrader
• Aspekte zu Kunst und Aufklärung / Roland Kanz
• Das ungeliebte Paradigma : Schwierigkeiten und Perspektiven musikhistorischer Aufklärungsforschung / Laurenz Lütteken
• Offensive Formlosigkeit? : Friedrich der Große, Aufklärung und Zeremoniellkritik / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
• Politisches Denken und Aufklärung in ideengeschichtlicher Hinsicht : Bemerkungen zur bürgerlichen Gesellschaft in der holländischen Frühaufklärung / Hans Blom
• Sache und Sachen der Aufklärung : Versuch einer Antwort auf die Frage, wie sich Programm und Praxis der Aufklätung erforschen lassen / Daniel Fulda
• Enzyklopädismus und Kulturtransfer im Aufklärungszeitalter : Fallbeispiele und transkulturelle Perspektiven / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
• Anthropologie : Literatur, Wissen, Wissenschaft : Aussichten einer 'literarischen Anthropologie' der Aufklärung / Carsten Zelle
• Die Blitzartigkeit der kleinen Form : Gedanken über die Metapher im Bezug auf die Wissenslehre bei Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / Elena Agazzi
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• Zur Einführung / Guido Naschert, Gideon Stiening
• Commercium mentis et corporis? : Ernst Platners medizinische Anthropologie in der Kritik von Marcus Herz und Immanuel Kant / Werner Euler
• Platner und die Wolffsche Philosophietradition / Hans-Peter Nowitzki
• Platners Aufklärung / Gideon Stiening
• Das "Gefühl Ich" : Ernst Platner zwischen Empirischer Psychologie und Transzendentalphilosophie / Udo Thiel
• Ernst Platners Auseinandersetzung mit David Hume / Falk Wunderlich
• Platner, kant und der Skeptizismus / Temilo van Zantwijk
• "Eben so viel feine Beobachtungsgabe, als philosophieschen Scharfsinn" / Jutta Heinz
• Ernst Platner und die Popularphilosophie / Michael Ansel
• Unbewusste Perzeptivität und metaphysisches Bedürfnis : Ernst Platners Auseinandersetzung mit Haller in den Quaestiones physiologicae (1794) / Simone De Angelis
• "Es giebt eine gewisse Gattung des Wahnsinns, nämlich den verborgenen" / Udo Roth
• Platner und Reinhold über das Vergnügen / Alessandro Lazzari
• Über eine "Entdeckung" in der Psychologie : Reinholds Auseinandersetzung mit Platners Bemerkungen zur Geschichte des Seelenbegriffs / Martin Bondeli
• Curriculum Vitae : Fundstücke und Nachträge zur Biographie Ernst Platners
• Johann Georg Sulzer (1720-1779) / Guido Naschert
• Kants Theodizee-Aufsatz im Spiegel neuerer Arbeiten / Volker Dieringer.