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  The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Viking portable library) (Paperback) By (author) Isaac Kramnick

  

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  Short Description for The Portable Enlightenment ReaderThis volume brings together more than 100 selections of works from the 18th century, including examples from Kant, Diderot, Newton and Locke. They demonstrate the impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social and economic institutions.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 28 March 1996
  • Format: Paperback 704 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Short Stories | History Of Ideas | Political Science & Theory | General & World History | European History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge
  • ISBN 13: 9780140245660 ISBN 10: 0140245669
  • Sales rank: 86,754

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• The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism. This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.