The Secular Enlightenment

The Secular Enlightenment
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780691216768
ISBN-13 : 0691216762
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Book Synopsis The Secular Enlightenment by : Margaret Jacob

Download or read book The Secular Enlightenment written by Margaret Jacob and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Jacob reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Jacob demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come. --Adapted from publisher description.


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