Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment 9781351901871, 2007038995, 9780754663706

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment 0754663701, 9780754663706

Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air

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Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment 9781501737343

Robert Norton proposes that Herder's thought—specifically in aesthetics, which was his primary concern during the f

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Discourses of Tolerance & Intolerance in the European Enlightenment 9781442687882

While offering an in-depth consideration of these complex issues in the context of the Enlightenment, the volume sheds l

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Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism 9780674045408

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest chal

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Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union 9780674259072

Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointe

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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters 303052566X, 9783030525668

This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between

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Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts 1409400581, 9781409400585

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment 9781503606456

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and au

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The Society of the Spectacle

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The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present 9781400833702

Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to today As comparative literature reshapes itself in

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