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The Secular Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691216768)
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xA major history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday lives
The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways 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 freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.Author: Margaret Jacob
ISBN-10: 0691216762
ISBN-13: 9780691216768
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2021
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
By Margaret Jacob
xMargaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans and The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850.
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