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"Many books claim to explain the Enlightenment, but they all assume that it was a thing. This is the first book to show what it actually was, namely an historiographical concept. It is a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United Stat...

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Main Author: Clark, J. C. D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment > Historiography.
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Civilization, Western > 18th century.
Siècle des Lumières.
Siècle des Lumières > Historiographie.
Philosophie > 18e siècle.
Civilisation occidentale > 18e siècle.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Europe.
HISTORY.
Historiography.
Social History.
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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