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The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction [#443]
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction [#443]
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  • Offers a comprehensive and concise account of the Enlightenment intellectual movement
  • Emphasises the geographical reach of the Enlightenment, while doing justice to the central role of French thinkers
  • Places the Enlightenment in its eighteenth-century context
  • Covers key thinkers such as Franco Venturi, Pierre Bayle, Jonathan Israel, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

   
A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But what is the relationship between the historical Enlightenment and the idea of 'Enlightenment', and can these two understandings be reconciled?
    
In this Very Short Introduction, John Robertson offers a concise historical introduction to the Enlightenment as an intellectual movement of eighteenth-century Europe. Discussing its intellectual achievements, he also explores how its supporters exploited new ways of communicating their ideas to a wider public, creating a new 'public sphere' for critical discussion of the moral, economic and political issues facing their societies.
   
   
Reading Guide
  
  

Index: 

1: Definitions of Enlightenment
2: Pre-Enlightenment
3: Enlightenment ideas
4: Enlightening society
5: The politics of Enlightenment
6: The legacy of Enlightenment
Further Reading
Index

About the author: 

John Robertson has been Professor of the History of Political Thought at Cambridge since 2010. He covers the intellectual history of early modern and Enlightenment Europe, with particular interests in political and historical thought, and in the Enlightenment in Scotland and in Italy. His books include the comparative study The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and he is now working on the uses of sacred history in political and social thought between 1650 and 1800. For many years he taught History at Oxford, as a University Lecturer in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, and he has held visiting appointments in Germany, the United States and, most recently in Paris.

"For all its concision, [this book] manages to be both wide-ranging and rigorious. In five compressed yet elegant chapters it summarizes the current state of research while also adding a series of important insights." - Times Literary Supplement
  

"the book does exactly what it says it will do" - Chris Pierson, Political Studies Review
  

"This intelligently written and informative book is more than simply a "a very short introduction". John Robertson's book provides, although concisely, a thorough and original interpretation of the Enlightenment as both a historical phenomenon and a philosophical idea." - H-Albion

Product details

ISBN : 9780199591787

Author: 
John Robertson
Pages
168 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Sep 2015
Series
Very Short Introductions
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The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction [#443]

The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction [#443]

The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction [#443]