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The creation of the modern world : the untold story of the British Enlightenment / Roy Porter

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2000Edition: 1st American edDescription: xxiv, 727 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393048721
  • 9780393048728
  • 0393322688
  • 9780393322682
Uniform titles:
  • Enlightenment
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 941.07 P844C 21
LOC classification:
  • DA485 .P68 2000b
  • B1302.E5 P8
Contents:
A blind spot -- The birth of an ideology -- Clearing away the rubbish -- Print culture -- Rationalizing religion -- The culture of science -- Anatomizing human nature -- The science of politics -- Secularizing -- Modernizing -- Happiness -- From good sense to sensibility -- Nature -- Did the mind have a sex? -- Education : a panacea? -- The vulgar -- The pursuit of wealth -- Reform -- Progress -- The revolutionary era : 'modern philosophy' -- Lasting light?
Review: "With its representative government, religious tolerance, precocious industrialization, and pioneering individualism, eighteenth-century Britain was at the cutting edge of political, social, and intellectual innovation. Porter examines the influence of such heroic figures as Bacon, Newton, and Locke in shaping the British Enlightenment, as well as the impact of other English essayists and novelists in popularizing modern thought. He persuasively demonstrates how their writings launched the wild phenomenon of Anglomania that swept the Continent and cast the Enlightenment well beyond Europe's shores."--Jacket
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Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane/Penguin Press in 2000 under title: Enlightenment

Includes bibliographical references (pages 616-693) and index

A blind spot -- The birth of an ideology -- Clearing away the rubbish -- Print culture -- Rationalizing religion -- The culture of science -- Anatomizing human nature -- The science of politics -- Secularizing -- Modernizing -- Happiness -- From good sense to sensibility -- Nature -- Did the mind have a sex? -- Education : a panacea? -- The vulgar -- The pursuit of wealth -- Reform -- Progress -- The revolutionary era : 'modern philosophy' -- Lasting light?

"With its representative government, religious tolerance, precocious industrialization, and pioneering individualism, eighteenth-century Britain was at the cutting edge of political, social, and intellectual innovation. Porter examines the influence of such heroic figures as Bacon, Newton, and Locke in shaping the British Enlightenment, as well as the impact of other English essayists and novelists in popularizing modern thought. He persuasively demonstrates how their writings launched the wild phenomenon of Anglomania that swept the Continent and cast the Enlightenment well beyond Europe's shores."--Jacket

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