Research Catalog

Title

The Enlightenment : a brief history with documents / Margaret C. Jacob.

Author

Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-

Publication

• Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

ix, 197 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm.

Summary

"In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period's most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot. New additions to the document collection include excerpts from Peter Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary as well as The indiscreet jewels, Diderot's novel set in the Congo but clearly aimed at the French court. Jacob covers the movement's lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period."--

Series Statement

The Bedford series in history and culture

Uniform Title

Bedford series in history and culture

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Enlightenment
• Enlightenment > Sources
• Civilization
• Europe > Civilization > 18th century
• Europe > Civilization > 18th century > Sources
• Europe > History > 17th century
• Europe > History > 18th century
• Europe

Genre/Form

Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one. Introduction : the struggle to create a new culture -- Political origins -- Scientific and religious origins -- The public sphere -- Enlightened feminism -- Reworking seventeenth-century formal philosophy -- A clandestine universe -- A Protestant odyssey -- Travel literature -- Anglophilia -- Mid-century crisis -- Rousseau -- The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 -- Slavery, imperialism, and the French Revolution -- The legacy of the enlightenment -- Part two. The documents -- 1. Order and disorder in church and state depicted -- 2. Some thoughts concerning education, 1693 / John Locke -- 3. Historical and critical dictionary, 1697 / Pierre Bayle -- 4. Treatise of the three impostors, 1719 -- 5. Letters concerning the English nation, 1733 / Voltaire -- 6. Letters, 1716-1718 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- 7. Encyclopedia, 1751 / Denis Diderot -- 8. The indiscreet jewels, 1748 / Denis Diderot -- 9. The social contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 10. What is Enlightenment?, 1784 / Immanuel Kant.

ISBN

• 1319048862
• 9781319048860

OCLC

• 952789342
• SCSB-11157258

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library