The Portable Enlightenment Reader - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Various, Isaac KramnickSeries:Portable LibraryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1995-12-01Pages:704
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140245660ISBN-10:140245669UPC:9780140245660Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, History & SurveysBook Topic:ModernSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.04Product ID:SCHFWY05MH
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140245660ISBN-10:140245669UPC:9780140245660Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, History & SurveysBook Topic:ModernSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.04Product ID:SCHFWY05MH
Isaac Kramnick was born in 1938 and educated at Harvard University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1965, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Cornell, where he is now Professor of Government. He is married to Miriam Brody Kramnick and lives in Ithaca, New York. Among his publications are Bolingbroke and His Circle, The Rage of Edmund Burke and numerous articles on eighteenth century topics. He has edited William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and, with Michael Foot, The Thomas Paine Reader for the Penguin Classics. Most recently he is the author, with Barry Sheerman, MP, of Laski: A Lift on the Left.
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