From Enlightenment to Revolution

by Eric Voegelin

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Published 1975 by Duke University Press in Durham, N.C .
Written in English

Subjects:

Political science -- History

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications
Statement	Eric Voegelin ; edited by John H. Hallowell.
LC Classifications	JA83 .V57
The Physical Object
Pagination	ix, 307 p. ;
Number of Pages	307
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL5072183M
ISBN 10	0822303264
LC Control Number	74081864

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“Dan Edelstein’s incisive book argues that before we define the Enlightenment as an historical period or debate it as a philosophical project we need to appreciate it as a story told by a set of self-conscious French moderns about the emergence of new social forms shaped by the methods and mentality of scientific reason. Read the full-text online edition of Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, (). Home» Browse» Books» Book details, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The.

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In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment /5(38). The book is a very concise and understandable survey of the years of that revolution up to the time of Napoleon's coup d' etat in It clearly corrects the popular understandings of this event as a chaotic bloodbath of ignorant sans culottes against the French nobility/5.

Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Voegelin, Eric, From Enlightenment to Revolution. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, The Enlightenment was arguably the single most important era in human history because of its influnce on the development of the modern world, but also as the impetus of the American Revolution and its philosophies that served as the blue print for the Declaration /5().

In a narrative history of ideas that proceeds from his book The Fate of Reason, Frederick Beiser discusses how the French Revolution, with a rationalism and an irrationalism that altered the world, transformed and politicized German philosophy and its central concern: the authority and limits of /5(13).

Let’s move on to your second book, The Enlightenment in America by Henry May. The author divides the European Enlightenment into four categories which he calls moderate, skeptical, revolutionary and didactic.

He thinks these four things affected America in roughly chronological order. The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals. Revolution and Enlightenment – Key Events As you read this chapter, look for the key events in the history of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.

• The ideas of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment laid the foundation for File Size: 5MB. The revolution that sprung from the Enlightenment quickly produced a hysterical, mob-heavy police state, practising summary justice and vicious persecution against more or less anyone it.

The surviving currents in this period which favored the awakening of critical thinking were: humanism based on the thinking of Erasmus, the current of free speech and writing, and critical analysis influenced by Antiquity.

His analysis impels the reader to revaluate the Enlightenment concept of humanism. By drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the anthropology of Enlightenment and revolutionary. Some consider the publication of Isaac Newton 's Principia Mathematica in as the first major enlightenment work.

French historians traditionally date the Enlightenment from tofrom the death of Louis XIV of France until the outbreak of the French Revolution that ended the Ancien Regime.

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“The Enlightenment” presupposes an arc of history toward secular democratic scientific liberalism. There is something to this presupposition, of course. Even the most devout believers today, at least in Europe and America, live in mental worlds that are Author: Thomas Kidd.