{"product_id":"enlightenment-thought","title":"Enlightenment Thought","description":"\"Margaret L. King has put together a highly representative selection of readings from most of the more significant—but by no means the most obvious—texts by the authors who made up the movement we have come to call the 'Enlightenment.' They range across much of Europe and the Americas, and from the early seventeenth century until the end of the eighteenth. In the originality of the choice of texts, in its range and depth, this collection offers both wide coverage and striking insights into the intellectual transformation which has done more than any other to shape the world in which we live today. It is \u003cb\u003esimply the best introduction to the subject now available\u003c\/b\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Anthony Pagden, UCLA, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronology, Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One - Casting Out Idols: 1620–1697\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIdols, or false notions: \u003c\/i\u003eFrancis Bacon, \u003ci\u003eThe New Instrument\u003c\/i\u003e (1620)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI think, therefore I am: \u003c\/i\u003eRené Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGod, or Nature: \u003c\/i\u003eBaruch Spinoza, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e (1677)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe system of the world: \u003c\/i\u003eIsaac Newton, \u003ci\u003eMathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (1687)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eHe searched for truth throughout his life: \u003c\/i\u003ePierre Bayle, \u003ci\u003eHistorical and Critical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e (1697)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two\u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003eThe Learned Maid: 1638–1740\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA face raised toward heaven:\u003c\/i\u003e Anna Maria van Schurman, \u003ci\u003eWhether the Study of Letters Befits a Christian Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1638)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe worlds I have made:\u003c\/i\u003e Margaret Cavendish, \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e (1666)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA finer sort of cattle:\u003c\/i\u003e Bathsua Makin, \u003ci\u003eAn Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen\u003c\/i\u003e (1673)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI warn you of the world:\u003c\/i\u003e Madame de Maintenon, \u003ci\u003eLetter: On the Education of the Demoiselles of Saint-Cyr\u003c\/i\u003e (August 1, 1686), and \u003ci\u003eInstruction: On the World\u003c\/i\u003e (1707)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe daybreak of your reason:\u003c\/i\u003e Émilie Du Châtelet, \u003ci\u003eFundamentals of Physics\u003c\/i\u003e (1740)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three\u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003eA State of Perfect Freedom: 1689–1695\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe chief criterion of the True Church:\u003c\/i\u003e John Locke, \u003ci\u003eLetter on Toleration\u003c\/i\u003e (1689)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFreedom from any superior power on earth:\u003c\/i\u003e John Locke, \u003ci\u003eSecond Treatise on Civil Government\u003c\/i\u003e (1689)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA white paper, with nothing written on it:\u003c\/i\u003e John Locke, \u003ci\u003eEssay Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e (1689)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLet your rules be as few as possible:\u003c\/i\u003e John Locke, \u003ci\u003eSome Thoughts Concerning Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1693)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFrom death, Jesus Christ restores all to life:\u003c\/i\u003e John Locke, \u003ci\u003eThe Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures\u003c\/i\u003e (1695)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four - All Things Made New: 1725–1784\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIn the wilderness, they are reborn:\u003c\/i\u003e Giambattista Vico, \u003ci\u003eThe New Science\u003c\/i\u003e (1725\/1730\/1744)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWithout these Names, nothing can be known,\u003c\/i\u003e Carl Linnaeus, \u003ci\u003eSystem of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1735)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAll the clouds at last are lifted:\u003c\/i\u003e Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, \u003ci\u003eThe Successive Advancement of the Human Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (1750)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA genealogical or encyclopedic tree of knowledge:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean le Rond d’Alembert, \u003ci\u003ePreliminary Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e (1751)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDare to know! :\u003c\/i\u003e Immanuel Kant, \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Enlightenment?\u003c\/i\u003e (1784)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five - Mind, Soul, and God: 1740–1779\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe narrow limits of human understanding:\u003c\/i\u003e David Hume, \u003ci\u003eAn Abstract of a Book Lately Published\u003c\/i\u003e (1740)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe soul is but an empty word:\u003c\/i\u003e Julien Offray de La Mettrie, \u003ci\u003eMan a Machine\u003c\/i\u003e (1747)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAll is reduced to sensation:\u003c\/i\u003e Claude Adrien Helvétius, \u003ci\u003eOn the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (1758)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAn endless web of fantasies and falsehoods:\u003c\/i\u003e Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d’Holbach, \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e (1772)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLet each believe that his own ring is real:\u003c\/i\u003e Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, \u003ci\u003eNathan the Wise\u003c\/i\u003e (1779)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six - Crush That Infamous Thing: 1733–1764\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThis is the country of sects:\u003c\/i\u003e Voltaire, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1733)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDisfigured by myth, until enlightenment comes:\u003c\/i\u003e Voltaire, \u003ci\u003eThe Culture and Spirit of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e (1756)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe best of all possible worlds:\u003c\/i\u003e Voltaire, \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e (1759)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAre we not all children of the same God?:\u003c\/i\u003e Voltaire, \u003ci\u003eTreatise on Tolerance\u003c\/i\u003e (1763)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIf a book displeases you, refute it! :\u003c\/i\u003e Voltaire, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e (1764)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven - Toward the Greater Good: 1748–1776\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThings must be so ordered that power checks power,\u003c\/i\u003e Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of the Laws\u003c\/i\u003e (1748)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eComplete freedom of trade must be ensured:\u003c\/i\u003e François Quesnay, \u003ci\u003eGeneral Maxims for the Economic Management of an Agricultural Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e (1758)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe nation's war against the citizen: Cesare\u003c\/i\u003e Beccaria, \u003ci\u003eOn Crimes and Punishments\u003c\/i\u003e (1764)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThere is no peace in the absence of justice:\u003c\/i\u003e Adam Ferguson, \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on the History of Civil Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1767)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLed by an invisible hand:\u003c\/i\u003e Adam Smith, \u003ci\u003eAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e (1776)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight - Encountering Others: 1688–1785\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThus died this great man:\u003c\/i\u003e Aphra Behn, \u003ci\u003eOroonoko: or The Royal Slave\u003c\/i\u003e (1688)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNot one sins the less for not being Christian: \u003c\/i\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu, \u003ci\u003eEmbassy Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1716–1718)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDo you not restore to them their liberty?:\u003c\/i\u003e Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies\u003c\/i\u003e (1770)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSome things which are rather interesting:\u003c\/i\u003e Captain James Cook, \u003ci\u003eVoyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World\u003c\/i\u003e (1777)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe inner genius of my being:\u003c\/i\u003e Johann Gottfried von Herder, \u003ci\u003eIdeas for a Philosophy of the History of Humankind\u003c\/i\u003e (1785)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter - Nine Citizen of Geneva: 1755–1782\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe most cunning project ever to enter the human mind: \u003c\/i\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau, \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on the Origin and Foundations of Human Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e (1754)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe supreme direction of the General Will:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTwo lovers from a small town at the foot of the Alps,\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau, \u003ci\u003eJulie, or the New Heloise\u003c\/i\u003e (1761)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBuild a fence around your child’s soul:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau, \u003ci\u003eEmile, or On Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1762)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThis man will be myself:\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Jacques Rousseau, \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e (1770)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Ten - Vindications of Women: 1685–1792\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNo higher design than to get her a husband:\u003c\/i\u003e Mary Astell, \u003ci\u003eReflections on Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e (1700)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe days of my bondage begin:\u003c\/i\u003e Anna Stanisławska, \u003ci\u003eOrphan Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (1685)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA dying victim dragged to the altar:\u003c\/i\u003e Denis Diderot, \u003ci\u003eThe Nun\u003c\/i\u003e (1760\/1780)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCreated to be the toy of man:\u003c\/i\u003e Mary Wollstonecraft, \u003ci\u003eVindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1792)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMan, are you capable of being just?:\u003c\/i\u003e Olympe de Gouges, \u003ci\u003eDeclaration of the Rights of Woman as Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e (1791)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eleven - American Reverberations: 1771–1792\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eI took upon me to assert my freedom:\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin Franklin, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1771\/1792)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFreedom has been hunted round the globe:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Paine, \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e (1776)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEndowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Jefferson and Others, \u003ci\u003eDeclaration of Independence\u003c\/i\u003e (1776)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA safeguard against faction and insurrection:\u003c\/i\u003e James Madison, \u003ci\u003eFederalist No. 10\u003c\/i\u003e (1787)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAn end to government by force and fraud:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Paine, \u003ci\u003eThe Rights of Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1791–1792)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twelve - Enlightenment's End: 1790–1794\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA partnership of the living, the dead, and those unborn:\u003c\/i\u003e Edmund Burke, \u003ci\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/i\u003e (1790)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe future destiny of the human species:\u003c\/i\u003e Nicolas de Condorcet, \u003ci\u003eA Sketch of a Historical Portrait of the Progress of the Human Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (1793–1794)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eTexts and Studies, Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66336491733341,"sku":null,"price":63.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781624667541.jpg?v=1793092377","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/enlightenment-thought","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}