
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Margaret L. King has put together a highly representative selection of readings from most of the more significant—but by no means the most obvious—texts by the authors who made up the movement we have come to call the 'Enlightenment.' They range across much of Europe and the Americas, and from the early seventeenth century until the end of the eighteenth. In the originality of the choice of texts, in its range and depth, this collection offers both wide coverage and striking insights into the intellectual transformation which has done more than any other to shape the world in which we live today. It is simply the best introduction to the subject now available."
—Anthony Pagden, UCLA, and author of The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Casting Out Idols: 1620–1697
- Chapter Two: The Learned Maid: 1638–1740
- Chapter Three: A State of Perfect Freedom: 1689–1695
- Chapter Four: All Things Made New: 1725–1784
- Chapter Five: Mind, Soul, and God: 1740–1779
- Chapter Six: Crush That Infamous Thing: 1733–1764
- Chapter Seven: Toward the Greater Good: 1748–1776
- Chapter Eight: Encountering Others: 1688–1785
- Chapter Nine: Citizen of Geneva: 1755–1782
- Chapter Ten: Vindications of Women: 1685–1792
- Chapter Eleven: American Reverberations: 1771–1792
- Chapter Twelve: Enlightenment’s End: 1790–1794
- Texts and Studies
- Index
- Back Cover