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Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : [Chapel Hill] : Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection/University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040735289
Author : George Charles Walton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271050126
"A collection of essays examining how print culture shaped the legacy of the Enlightenment. Explores the challenges, contradictions, and dilemmas modern European societies have encountered since the eighteenth century in trying to define, spread, and realize Enlightenment ideas and values"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540742810
From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about… ✓ The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment ✓ Engaging With Religion ✓ Morality in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Society in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Science and Political Economy ✓ The Enlightenment and the Public ✓ Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199591787
This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.
Author : Arianne Baggerman,Rudolf Michel Dekker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004172692
A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution and the Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands provide the backdrop to this study, which ranges from changing perceptions of time, space and nature to the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its influence on such far-flung fields as education, landscape gardening and politics. The book describes the high expectations people had of science and medicine, and their disappointment at the failure of these new branches of learning to cure the world of its ills.
Author : Jorge Reina Schement
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351306027
The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that the information age has evolved gradually throughout the twentieth century. National focus on the production and distribution of information stems directly from the organizing principles and realities of the market system, not from a revolution sparked by the invention of the computer. Now available in paperback, Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age, brings together findings from many disciplines, including classical studies, etymology, political sociology, and macroeconomics. This valuable resource will be enjoyed by sociologists, historians, and scholars of communication and information studies.
Author : Seth Rudy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137411549
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.
Author : Richard B. Sher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226752549
The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
Author : Thomas Munck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521878074
This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.
Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791426386
Using the writings of the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School as a framework, this book uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism as manifested in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot.
Author : Rosalind Carr
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748646432
Presents major new research on gender in the Scottish EnlightenmentWhat role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century.The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241004838
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?' Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in 'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of modern times.
Author : Caroline Davis,Archie Dick,Elizabeth le Roux,Dennis Walder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000426373
Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes. Firstly, it presents original research into the formation of reading publics and the impact of reading cultures, by uncovering obscure but important reading communities and circuits of book distribution and reception. A second theme is the relationship between print and politics, with a particular focus on the networks of power: how control over the production and circulation of printed books has shaped literary and cultural development. The third theme is transnational print culture, and how the control exercised by publishers in Europe and America has shaped literature and society in southern Africa. Drawing together interdisciplinary research and diverse methodologies, the collection encompasses a range of perspectives, including literary studies, anthropology, publishing studies, the history of the book and art history, and many of the chapters are based on previously unexamined archives and collections. The volume contributes to current debates and opens up new and exciting ways of furthering the study of postcolonial literature and African book history. The chapters included in this book were originally published in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : UCAL:B4382056
Modern historians with considerable regularity have identified cosmopolitanism as a characteristic of the Enlightenment. Despite this frequent recognition, the term remains an enigmatic and rather imprecise label. This study attempts to fulfill this need.
Author : Paul Hyland,Olga Gomez,Francesca Greensides
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0415204488
This oustanding sourcebook brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this great period of change.