The Portable Enlightenment Reader
$45.21
- Paperback
704 pages
- Release Date
28 March 1996
Summary
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism. This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140245660 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140245669 |
| Author: | Isaac Kramnick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 March 1996 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Viking Portable Library |
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Isaac Kramnick
Isaac Kramnick was born in 1938 and educated at Harvard University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1965, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Cornell, where he is now Professor of Government. He is married to Miriam Brody Kramnick and lives in Ithaca, New York.
Among his publications are:
- Bolingbroke and His Circle
- The Rage of Edmund Burke
He has edited:
- William Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
- The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay
- The Thomas Paine Reader (with Michael Foot)
Most recently he is the author, with Barry Sheerman, MP, of Laski: A Lift on the Left.
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