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The enlightenment : the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790 / Ritchie Robertson.
The Oxford University German professor and Times Literary Supplement lead reviewer presents a sweeping history of the Enlightenment period that illuminates the era's purposeful, innovation-driven efforts to promote human happiness.
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- ISBN: 9780062410658 : HRD
- ISBN: 0062410652 : HRD
- Physical Description: xxii, 984 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 893-925) and index. |
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| Subject: | Enlightenment. History, Modern > 18th century. |
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The Enlightenment : The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
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Table of Contents
The Enlightenment : The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| List of Illustrations | p. xiii | |
| Preface | p. xv | |
| Note on Translations | p. xxiii | |
| 1 | Happiness, Reason and Passion | p. 1 |
| Is Happiness Possible? | p. 4 | |
| Freedom from Fear | p. 9 | |
| The Witch Craze and its End | p. 14 | |
| Reason | p. 21 | |
| The Passions | p. 32 | |
| Interpreting the Enlightenment | p. 37 | |
| 2 | The Scientific Revolution | p. 42 |
| Bacon or Descartes? | p. 44 | |
| Newton and Newtonianism | p. 56 | |
| Experimental Philosophy | p. 65 | |
| The Heavens and the Earth | p. 71 | |
| Science and the Enlightenment Public | p. 77 | |
| The Harmony of Science and Religion | p. 82 | |
| 3 | Toleration | p. 85 |
| Against Toleration | p. 87 | |
| Persecution in France | p. 91 | |
| Toleration in the Dutch Republic | p. 94 | |
| Britain: 'a Persecuting Society' | p. 99 | |
| Toleration in the Holy Roman Empire | p. 105 | |
| William Penn's Holy Experiment | p. 108 | |
| Arguments for Toleration | p. 111 | |
| Bayle | p. 115 | |
| Voltaire | p. 123 | |
| Lessing | p. 126 | |
| Goethe | p. 130 | |
| Beyond Toleration | p. 133 | |
| 4 | The Religious Enlightenment | p. 136 |
| Optimism | p. 137 | |
| Physico-Theology | p. 147 | |
| Religious Moderation in England and Scotland | p. 157 | |
| Theological Enlightenment in Germany | p. 166 | |
| The Catholic Enlightenment | p. 170 | |
| Enlightenment in the Orthodox World | p. 176 | |
| The Jewish Enlightenment | p. 179 | |
| The Study of the Bible | p. 182 | |
| The New Testament | p. 191 | |
| 5 | Unbelief and Speculation | p. 199 |
| The Disenchantment of the World | p. 200 | |
| Medicalization | p. 206 | |
| Secularization? | p. 210 | |
| The Fear of Hell | p. 215 | |
| Natural Religion | p. 220 | |
| Voltaire and the Bible | p. 224 | |
| Atheism | p. 232 | |
| An Evil God? | p. 241 | |
| New Religious Speculations | p. 245 | |
| The Power of Feeling | p. 249 | |
| Enlightened Dying | p. 253 | |
| 6 | Science and Sensibility | p. 261 |
| Self-Love and Sympathy | p. 262 | |
| The Science of Man: Hume's Treatise | p. 274 | |
| Anthropologies | p. 282 | |
| The Science of Woman | p. 293 | |
| Sexual Relations without Sin | p. 301 | |
| Classifying Humanity | p. 307 | |
| Diderot and the Grey Areas of Humanity | p. 317 | |
| Empathetic Fiction | p. 323 | |
| Sentiment and Society | p. 340 | |
| 7 | Sociability | p. 351 |
| Politeness | p. 353 | |
| The Public Sphere | p. 358 | |
| Societies | p. 365 | |
| The Republic of Letters | p. 373 | |
| The Ethos of Scholarship | p. 377 | |
| The Virtual Public Sphere | p. 382 | |
| Censorship | p. 389 | |
| Unsociability: Hume vs Rousseau | p. 395 | |
| 8 | Practical Enlightenment | p. 401 |
| Police | p. 401 | |
| The Encyclopédie | p. 412 | |
| Agriculture | p. 420 | |
| Medicine | p. 427 | |
| Bringing up Children | p. 434 | |
| Schools and Universities | p. 445 | |
| Punishment | p. 450 | |
| 9 | Aesthetics | p. 464 |
| Arts, Art, Aesthetics | p. 465 | |
| Cartesian Aesthetics: Neoclassicism | p. 468 | |
| Taste | p. 474 | |
| Genius | p. 483 | |
| Art and Morality | p. 490 | |
| Imitation | p. 493 | |
| Tragedy | p. 500 | |
| The Sublime | p. 506 | |
| 10 | The Science of Society | p. 512 |
| Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws | p. 513 | |
| Commerce | p. 521 | |
| Political Economy | p. 529 | |
| Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations | p. 535 | |
| Luxury | p. 543 | |
| 11 | Philosophical History | p. 555 |
| Writing Secular History | p. 555 | |
| Two Centres of History: Gottingen and Edinburgh | p. 562 | |
| Two Histories of England: David Hume and Catharine Macaulay | p. 572 | |
| Gibbon's Decline and Fall | p. 582 | |
| The Future | p. 595 | |
| 12 | Cosmopolitanism | p. 600 |
| Citizens of the World | p. 600 | |
| Travel and Travel Writers | p. 606 | |
| Myths of China | p. 621 | |
| Empire | p. 626 | |
| The Histoire des deux Indes | p. 631 | |
| The Discovery of Asia | p. 637 | |
| The Primitive | p. 642 | |
| Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Forster and Herder | p. 648 | |
| 13 | Forms of Government | p. 655 |
| Monarchy | p. 656 | |
| Enlightened Absolutism | p. 662 | |
| Republics | p. 683 | |
| Rousseau and the Social Contract | p. 692 | |
| 14 | Revolutions | p. 706 |
| The American Revolution | p. 707 | |
| The French Revolution | p. 717 | |
| At Long Last, an English Enlightenment | p. 735 | |
| Some Enlightenment Legacies | p. 745 | |
| Conclusion: The Battle over the Enlightenment | p. 769 | |
| References | p. 781 | |
| Select Bibliography | p. 893 | |
| Index | p. 927 |
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