J. C. D. Clark

The Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

An Idea and Its History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this monumental study of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present, J. C. D. Clark shows that the Enlightenment was not a thing, but rather a historiographical concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198916307
• Artikelnr.: 72255539

Autorenporträt

J. C. D. Clark was educated at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Peterhouse. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of All Souls College; at Chicago, he held a Visiting Professorship at the Committee on Social Thought; he has held visiting posts elsewhere. Latterly he was Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. He lives now in Northumberland. His interests are primarily in intellectual history, philosophy, social history, literature, and historiography, especially in the 'long eighteenth century', 1660-1832.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Why is the Enlightenment a Problem?
Part I: Absences
1: Was the Enlightenment a Social Practice?
2: Was the Enlightenment Invented in France?
3: What Was English Discourse?
4: Did Anglophone Philosophers Design 'the Enlightenment'?
5: Why Could Even Leading Reformers in the Age of Revolution Not Conceptualize 'the Enlightenment'?
Paart II: Anticipations?
6: Was the Enlightenment Invented in America?
7: Was British Empiricism the Framework of Common Sense?
8: Did Liberals Recognize the Enlightenment?
9: Did Socialists Recognize the Enlightenment?
Part III: Achievements?
10: Was 'the Enlightenment' Invented in Germany?
11: Was There an 'Enlightenment Project'?
12: How Did Different Nationalities Construct Their Enlightenment?
Conclusion: The Enlightenment, the History of Ideas, and Modernism
Bibliography
Index