The Enlightenment : a brief history with documents / [edited by] Margaret C. Jacob.

• pt. 1. Introduction : the struggle to create a new culture -- Political origins -- Scientific and religious origins -- The public sphere -- Enlightened feminism -- Reworking seventeenth-century formal philosophy -- A clandestine universe -- A Protestant odyssey -- Travel literature -- Anglophilia -- Mid-century crisis -- Rousseau -- The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 -- Slavery, imperialism, and the French Revolution -- The legacy of the enlightenment -- A note about the text -- pt. 2. The documents -- 1. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693 / John Locke -- 2. The Treatise on the Three Impostors, 1719 -- 3. Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733 / Voltaire -- 4. Letters, 1716-1718 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- 5. Encyclopedia, 1751 / Denis Diderot -- 6. Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 / Denis Diderot -- 7. The Social Contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 8. What is Enlightenment?, 1784 / Immanuel Kant -- 9. Jerusalem : Or on Religious Power and Judaism, 1783 / Moses Mendelssohn -- Appendixes -- An enlightenment chronology (1685-1800) -- Selected bibliography.

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Upplysningen  (sao)

Enlightenment.  (LCSH)

Enlightenment  -- Sources. (LCSH)

Enlightenment  (LCSH)

Europe  -- Civilization -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Sources. (LCSH)

Europe  -- History -- 17th century.

Europe  -- History -- 18th century.

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