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Cargando... The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (2001)por Margaret C. Jacob
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The flaws with this volume are the same that face many of the Bedford Series. Compacting an entire era into a slim volume means that some essential authors are inevitably left out while others are included for no apparent reason, while the selections that are included are often edited beyond recognition for length. In particular, Montagu's letters seemed like an attempt at political correctness with the inclusion of a woman (would de Gouges or Wollstonecraft have better filled that niche, however?). Jacob's introductory essay was thorough, but leaned too heavily upon her own areas of research, rather than presenting a balanced overview of the Enlightenment. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period's most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot. New additions to the document collection include excerpts from Peter Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary as well as The indiscreet jewels, Diderot's novel set in the Congo but clearly aimed at the French court. Jacob covers the movement's lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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