A History of Modern Culture: The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776

ISBN-13: 9781138563360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 712 str.

Preserved Smith

Opis

The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools.

Spis treści

1. The background and the Character of the Enlightenment 2. Newtonian Science 3. Linnean Science 4. The Place of Science in Eighteenth-Century Thought 5. Philosophy 6. Political and Economic Theory 7. Historiography 8. The Modern Prose Style 9. Poetry and Drama 10. The Propaganda of the Enlightenment 11. Education 12. Religious Reaction and Revival 13. Deism and Skepticism 14. The Decline of Superstition and Persecution 15. Art and Music Bibliography Index

O autorze

Preserved Smith taught at Cornell University as a member of the Department of History from 1923 to 1941.