World of the Enlightenment

World of the Enlightenment

Ferrone, Vincenzo; Mclaughlin, Martin; Tarantino, Elisabetta

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2025

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9781032489582

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Introduction: The crisis of the humanities and the cultural history of the Enlightenment

1. The Enlightenment as a new humanism and a laboratory of modernity

2. The Encyclopedie: Critiquing the seventeenth-century scientific revolution

3. The foundations of a science for man: Empiricism and natura naturans

4. Genius and imagination: The uchronies and popular sciences of the Late Enlightenment

5. The Enlightenment and modern art in the age of public opinion

6. The rise of intellectual power and the new politics: Imagination and experimentation in the republicanism of the moderns

7. The political enigma of the global Enlightenment: The rights of man in the face of slavery

8. From the science of man to the humanism of the moderns: The equality and universalism of rights and the transformation of values

9. The Enlightenment and the Atlantic revolutions: the Haitian Revolution

10. The legacy of the Enlightenment: How its project stalled amid new identities and Ancien regime metamorphoses

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Enlightenment;History;Early Modern History;Science;Culture