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1st Edition

The Enlightenment and Its Shadows

Edited By Peter Hulme, Ludmilla Jordanova Copyright 1990

244 Pages

by Routledge

Description

The Enlightenment, a broad and complex phenomenon, is a vital part of the history of European culture. It shaped intellectual life from the middle of the seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century and in its shadows many intellectual battles are still being fought. The contributors to this original and provocative book, The Enlightenment and Its Shadows (originally published in... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova

2. The spontaneous hand of nature: savagery, colonialism, and the Enlightenment
Peter Hulme

3. Candide and native America
Gordon Brotherston

4. Music in the Enlightenment
Joe Allard

5. Difficult difference: Rousseau’s fictions of identity
Jay Bernstien

6. Mercier’s Enlightenment utopia: progress and social ideals
Simon Collier

7. Adam Ferguson and the enterprise culture
Ted Benton

8. Imagining the Republic: the sign and sexual politics in France
Margaret Iversen

9. Reflections on Burke’s Reflections, 1790–1990
David Musselwhite

10. Human rights and the corruption of governments, 1789–1989
Michael Freeman

11. Enlightenment as autonomy: Kant’s vindication of reason
Onora O’Neill

12. The authoritarian response
Ludmilla Jordanova

Editor(s)

Biography

Peter Hulme

Ludmilla Jordanova

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