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Reason’s dawn fades, revealing inner voices before revolution’s storm.
The Enlightenment
An Evaluation of Its Assumptions, Attitudes and Values
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304 pages
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28 June 1990
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Summary
Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated. In the works of Rousseau, Kant and Goethe, there was discernible a new inner voice, and an awareness of individual uniqueness which had eluded their more self-confident predecessors. The stage …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140137453 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140137459 |
| Author: | Norman Hampson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 1990 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Norman Hampson
Norman Hampson was Professor of History at the University of York.
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