The Enlightenment : : Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity

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Call Number: BOCD 190 Sc Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 190 Sc Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
"14 lectures"--Container.
The question of enlightenment -- Europe in the 1680s : the political origins of the Enlightenment -- Scientific inquiry, religious controversy, and political dissent -- Voltaire and the campaign against fanaticism -- The emergence of the public sphere I : academies and the quest -- The emergence of the public sphere II : coffeehouses and salons -- The emergence of the public sphere III : secret societies and the clandestine book trade -- Diderot and the Encyclopédie -- Dreaming philosophers and the crazy musicians : Diderot's later career -- New worlds : strange peoples, and peculiar customs -- The Scottish Enlightenment and the origins of social theory -- Enlightenment in Germany : Lessing and Mendelssohn -- An age of revolutions -- The legacies of the Enlightenment.
Lecture given by James Schmidt.
In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements but also on the strange and often colorful characters that populated it.

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