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Cover -- The Enlightenment : An Idea and Its History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Why Is the Enlightenment a Problem? -- The History of Ideas and Its Discontents -- Did Practice Precede Principle? -- The Twilight of the Categories -- The One Shall Be Taken, and the Other Left: Choosing Teams -- 'Mehr Licht!' European Linguistic Usage -- The Structure of the Book -- Part I Absences? -- Introduction -- 1: Was the Enlightenment a Social Practice? -- Science and Society -- Jürgen Habermas -- The English Coffee House and Sociability
The Spectator, The Free-Holder, and Politeness -- Coffee Houses and Other Organizations -- The French Salons -- The Culture of Literacy -- 2: Was the Enlightenment Invented in France? -- Linguistic Usage -- British Outsiders and French Insiders -- The Encyclopédie as the Key Text of the Enlightenment -- Theology: d'Alembert and Diderot -- D'Alembert's Manifesto -- Diderot's Manifesto -- Rousseau's First Discourse -- Rousseau and Diderot -- Rousseau and Voltaire -- Voltaire and his Reception in England -- Rousseau's Social Ideals -- Rousseau and Hume -- French Philosophy after Rousseau
3: What Was English Discourse? -- 'Liberalism': An Import from Spain? -- 'Philosophy': The Primacy of Christian Stoicism? -- 'Progress': Travelling without Arriving? -- 'Enlightenment': An Import from Germany? -- 4: Did Anglophone Philosophers Design 'the Enlightenment'? -- Thomas Stanley and the Nature of Philosophy -- John Locke: Natural Rights and Religion -- Locke and Toleration -- Locke's Two Treatises of Government -- Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding -- Locke, Human Nature, and Self-Evidence -- David Hume: Philosophy and History -- Hume's Social Context
Hume's Philosophy and the Science of Man -- Hume's Essays and Related Works -- Hume's History : Its Premises and Purposes -- Hume's Science of Man and Public Events -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Virtue, and Equality -- William Godwin and Human Perfectibility -- Did Its Enemies Define the Enlightenment? Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin Literature -- 5: Why Could Even Leading Reformers in the Age of Revolution Not Conceptualize 'the Enlightenment'? -- Arianism: Richard Price -- Socinianism: Joseph Priestley -- Deism: Thomas Paine -- Conclusion -- Part II: Anticipations? -- Introduction
6: Was the Enlightenment Invented in America? -- The Causal Link and the Enlightenment -- The Key Concepts: Enlightenment, Progress, Natural Rights -- Price's American Sources -- Price's Knowledge of France -- 7: Was British Empiricism the Framework of Common Sense? -- From Locke to Wollstonecraft -- The German Contribution -- Locke in the Nineteenth Century -- Bertrand Russell -- 8: Did Liberals Recognize the Enlightenment? -- Historiography -- The Liberal -- Richard Cobden -- John Stuart Mill -- Liberalism and Socialism -- Herbert Samuel -- Leonard Hobhouse -- Walter Lyon Blease
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]