The Enlightenment : A Sourcebook and Reader, Paperback / softback Book

The Enlightenment : A Sourcebook and Reader Paperback / softback

Edited by Olga Gomez, Francesca (Bath Spa University College, UK) Greensides, Paul Hyland

Part of the Routledge Readers in History series

Paperback / softback

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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 theoryreligion and beliefart 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. Containing illustrations from the work of artists such as Hogarth and Gainsborough, a chronology of the Enlightenment, and a detailed bibliography, The Enlightenment is a rich source of information and inspiration for all those studying this great period of change.

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