The secular Enlightenment / Margaret C. Jacob.

"The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from free...

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Main Author: Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, United Kingdom : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • The setting : space expanded and filled anew
  • Time reinvented
  • Secular lives
  • Paris and the materialist alternative : the Widow Stockdorff
  • The Scottish enlightenment in Edinburgh
  • Berlin and Vienna
  • Naples and Milan
  • The 1790s.