Martin Fitzpatrick / Peter Jones / Christa Knellwolf / Iain McCalman (eds.)

The Enlightenment World

Mitarbeit: Fitzpatrick, Martin; Jones, Peter; Knellwolf, Christa

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Produktbeschreibung

The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation.

This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment.

The chapters, written by leading international experts, represent the most cutting-edge research within the field and include:
The High EnlightenmentPolite Culture and the ArtsReforming the WorldMaterial and Pop CultureTransformations and Exploration.
Covering topics as diverse as government, fashion, craftsmen and artisans, philanthropy, cross-cultural encounters, feminism, censorship, science and education, this volume will provide essential reading for all students of the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Worlds
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU20049
• Seitenzahl: 738
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 2052g
• ISBN-13: 9780415215756
• ISBN-10: 0415215757
• Artikelnr.: 13780182

Autorenporträt

Martin Fitzpatrick was formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, the University of Wales, Aberyswyth. He is co-editor of Enlightenment and Dissent. Peter Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Christa Knellwolf is affiliated to the Austrailian National University and co-editor (with Christopher Norris) of 'The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.9.' Iain McCalman is the Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and general editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832'

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Intellectual Origins of the Enlightenment 2. Early Enlightenment Formations 3. The High Enlightenment 4. Polite Culture and the Arts 5. Material and Popular Culture 6. Reforming the World 7. Transformations and Explorations 7. The Enlightenment and its Critics: Then and Now

Rezensionen

'A triumph ... The volume combines all the best features of the Routledge Worlds series ... in this case we really do have "the best study of the Enlightenment World ever produced".' - Historical Journal

'The volume will be of immeasurable help to those who want to explore the moving frontiers of Enlightenment studies, and it will undoubtedly encourage students to look for new challenges.' - English Historical Review

'A triumph ... The volume combines all the best features of the Routledge Worlds series ... in this case we really do have "the best study of the Enlightenment World ever produced".' - Historical Journal

'The volume will be of immeasurable help to those who want to explore the moving frontiers of Enlightenment studies, and it will undoubtedly encourage students to look for new challenges.' - English Historical Review