The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century thought /
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought is designed to provide an overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on currents of thought in the English-speaking world as it was then constituted, encompassing Britain, Ireland and Anglophone North America. This...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary: | The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought is designed to provide an overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on currents of thought in the English-speaking world as it was then constituted, encompassing Britain, Ireland and Anglophone North America. This historical period was a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing and changing rapidly, changes fuelled by a rich ferment of speculation, theorizing and debate that opened up new avenues of thought. The essays in this volume survey themes, intellectual movements and major thinkers who contributed significantly to an expanding intellectual conversation. The volume is organized in two parts, beginning with four wide-ranging chapters on key areas of thought, philosophy, science, political and legal theory and religion, followed by several shorter chapters that focus on subjects of emerging inquiry, in particular, aesthetics, economics, ideas of sensibility and intellectual disciplines undergoing methodological evolution, notably history. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107082489 110708248X 9781107442917 1107442915 |