The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents

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Foreword Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: The Struggle to Create a New Culture Political Origins Scientific and Religious Origins The Public Sphere Enlightened Feminism Seventeenth Century Formal Philosophy and its Reworking A Clandestine Universe A Protestant Odyssey Travel Literature Anglophilia Crisis at Mid-Century Rousseau The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 Slavery The Legacy of Enlightenment PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693 The Treatise on the Three Impostors Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nations, 1733 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters, 1716-1718 Denis Diderot, Encylopedia, 1751 Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762 Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?, 1784 Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism, 1783 Chronology Selected Bibliography Index

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