The Enlightenment

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the second edition of her book, Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other questions about the Enlightenment. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a fresh introduction, a new chapter on slavery, and new material on the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon. The bibliography and short biographies have been extended. This accessible synthesis of scholarship will prove invaluable reading to students of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

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'... this is a wide-ranging and useful survey of the field.' Norman Hampson, Modern and Contemporary France

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Dorinda Outram is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Her previous publications include Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (1987) and The Body and the French Revolution: Sex Class and Political Culture (1989).

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List of illustrations; Chronology; 1. What is Enlightenment?; 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment; 3. Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual?; 4. Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment; 5. When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment; 6. Enlightenment thinking about gender; 7. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding; 8. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment; 9. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?; Brief biographies; Suggestions for further reading; Index.

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