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  • Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

    Edited by Michel Delon ...
    This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give ... Read more

    $1,184.99 CAD

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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Divine Fury

    A History of Genius

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football coaches, and entrepreneurs are labeled 'geniuses,' and the word is applied so widely that it has obscured the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment Volume 2

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series Book 2 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment Volume 1

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series Book 1 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD