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The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820

Author : Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674023226

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This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture.

The Village Enlightenment in America

Author : Craig Hazen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252068289

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The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. A theologian, writer, and apologist for the nascent Mormon movement, as well as an amateur scientist, Orson Pratt wrote Key to the Universe, or a New Theory of Its Mechanism, to establish a scientific base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Hare, an inventor and ardent convert to spiritualism, used his scientific expertise to lend credence to the spiritualist movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, generally considered the initiator of the American mind-cure movement, developed an overtly religious concept of science and used it to justify his system of theology. Pratt, Hare, and Quimby all employed a potent combination of popular science and Baconianism to legitimate their new religious ideas. Using the same terms--matter, ether, magnetic force--to account for the behavior of particles, planetary rotation, and the influence of the Holy Ghost, these agents of the Enlightenment constructed complex systems intended to demonstrate a fundamental harmony between the physical and the metaphysical. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.

The American Enlightenment

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 091122145X

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The Enlightenment in America

Author : Henry Farnham May
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000039057728

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Throughout the book he relates the Enlightenment to Protestant Christianity, for it is out of the clashes and reconciliations between those two systems that 19th-century American culture--a culture that lasted almost to our own time--took shape. Defined so broadly, the religion of Enlightenment obviously included many different kinds of people--deists and skeptics and liberal Christians, aristocrats and democrats, conservatives and revolutionaries. May divides the European Enlightenment into four major categories, and shows how each had a different effect in America. Obviously some ideas could be transmitted more easily than others to a society overwhelmingly Protestant and rapidly becoming democratic. May shows how the Enlightenment affected the thoughts and actions of major figures like Jefferson, Franklin, and John Adams, but these familiar figures are treated against a background of less well-known people--doctors and ministers, scientists and planters and politicians.

American Enlightenments

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300224566

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A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary, patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer’s book strips away our modern inventions of the American national past, exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more recent times.

The Enlightenment and the Book

Author : Richard B. Sher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226752549

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The Enlightenment and the Book by Richard B. Sher Pdf

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.

America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

Author : G. McDowell,J. O'Neill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230601062

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America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism by G. McDowell,J. O'Neill Pdf

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America.

America's Founding Secret

Author : Robert W. Galvin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0742522806

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In this important work, the author illuminates how the founding fathers' motives, thoughts, and actions were framed by the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

Author : George Marsden
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465069774

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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course. Their failure lost them the faith of their constituents, paving the way for a Christian revival that offered America a firm new moral vision -- one rooted in the Protestant values of the founders. A groundbreaking reappraisal of the country's spiritual reawakening, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment shows how America found new purpose at the dawn of the Cold War.

The French Enlightenment in America

Author : Paul Merrill Spurlin,Maurizio Valsania
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820359304

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The French Enlightenment in America by Paul Merrill Spurlin,Maurizio Valsania Pdf

The French Enlightenment in America offers an overview of French American cultural relations during the French Enlightenment. The essays in this volume explore the literary presence of French authors in America between 1760 and 1800 and the reception of their writings by the Founding Fathers and other Americans. These essays explore such topics as the Founding Fathers’ knowledge of French, the philosophes, Voltaire in the South, and more. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Latin America and the Enlightenment

Author : Arthur Preston Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:246298396

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The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825

Author : Jose R. Torre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : UCSC:32106016689454

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The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825 by Jose R. Torre Pdf

Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.

The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825

Author : Jose R. Torre
Publisher : Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1781446172

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Given the significance the new world held in the minds of Enlightenment thinkers, it is remarkable that scholars have not more fully documented the Enlightenment in America. So far, the body of work on the American Enlightenment has focused almost exclusively on two areas, politics and religion. In contrast, scholars have paid little attention to the polyglot efforts of American doctors, scientists, engineers, botanists, poets and other Enlightenment actors. The Enlightenment in America fills this significant gap in the discourse. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. The collection highlights the uniquely functional nature of the Enlightenment in America. For Enlightenment era, thinkers knowledge could not be divorced from utility. This goal seems to have been most fully realized in the United States. By highlighting both the material and intellectual elements of the Enlightenment, The Enlightenment in America helps to redefine the Enlightenment as more than an intellectual idea. This book was recognized by CHOICE magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

The Society for Useful Knowledge

Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608195725

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A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment-think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club.

Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment

Author : Richard B. Sher,Jeffrey R. Smitten
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018976780

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"In the standard accounts of the American Enlightenment, Scottish influences on American culture are often recognised but usually limited to the effects of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy from the 1790s onwards. In the standard accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment, America's influence on Scottish thought is given little attention. Scholarship on both Enlightenments generally neglects religion, music, architecture and other important areas of culture. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the rich and varied Scottish-American cultural relations in the eighteenth century. There are three broad topics: John Witherspoon as a bridge between evangelical religion and the Enlightenment during the era of the American Revolution; the respective influences of American affairs on Scottish thinkers, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and aristocratic 'country' Whigs, and of Scottish thought and rhetoric on the American Founding Fathers; and the Scottish component in the culture of late eighteenth-century Philadelphia, including philosophy and literature, medical education, music and architecture"--Back cover.