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The enlightenment : a sourcebook and reader.

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Publication date2003
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages488
ISBN (print)978-0415204491
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameRoutledge Readers in History
PublisherRoutledge

Abstract

'This must be the best general reader on the Enlightenment now available.' - History of Political Thought The Enlightenment Reader brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this period in history. Extracts are gathered thematically into sections on such aspects of the Enlightenment as political theory, religion and belief, art and nature. In each section, the texts are introduced and a final a final section on 'Critical Reflections' provides a selection of modern critical opinions on the period.