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The Enlightenment

  • Textbook
  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Roy Porter

    1. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in European History (SEURH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. What Was the Enlightenment?

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Goal: a Science of Man

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 12-23

  4. The Politics of Enlightenment

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 24-31

  5. Reforming Religion by Reason

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 32-41

  6. Who Was the Enlightenment?

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 42-50

  7. Unity or Diversity?

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 51-60

  8. Enlightenment and Beyond

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 61-69

  9. Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter?

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 70-75

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 76-95
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About this book

After having long been dismissed as a shallow irrelevance, the Enlightenment has now been rehabilitated as a major European movement in ideas and culture. Recent historical writing has shown how it was more than the airy philosophisings of a coterie of intellectuals - but rather a massive reorientation of thought, involving modernization, secularization and the application of science on a grand scale. These trends are surveyed and assessed in this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

    Roy Porter

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