The Enlightenment

By:

Roy Porter

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in European History

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The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the "ancien regime" and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the scholarship, it offers a comprehensive vision of this many faceted movement.

Author Biography:

ROY PORTER is Professor in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He has written widely on the history of medicine, psychiatry and the Enlightenment. His recent books include Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (1991), London: A Social History (1994) and 'The Greatest Benefit to Mankind': A Medical History of Humanity (1997).

Release date Australia

January 16th, 2001

Author

Roy Porter

Audiences

A / AS level
General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Edition

2nd ed. 2001

Illustrations

X, 90 p.

Imprint

Red Globe Press

Pages

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Series

Studies in European History

Dimensions

137x216x8

ISBN-13

9780333945056

Product ID

1725729

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