The Enlightenment and its shadows / edited by Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova
1990, First Edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404075
ISBN: 0415042313
Physical description; viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index. Contents; The spontaneous hand of nature : savagery, colonialism, and the Enlightenment / Peter Hulme -- Candide and native America / Gordon Brotherston -- Music in the Enlightenment / Joe Allard -- Difficult difference : Rousseau's fictions of identity / Jay Bernstein -- Mercier's Enlightenment utopia : progress and social ideals / Simon Collier -- Adam Ferguson and the enterprise culture / Ted Benton -- Imagining the Republic : the sign and sexual politics in France / Margaret Iversen -- Reflections on Burke's Reflections, 1790-1990 / David Musselwhite -- Human rights and the corruption of governments, 1789-1989 / Michael Freeman -- Enlightenment as autonomy : Kant's vindication of reason / Onora O'Neill -- The authoritarian response / Ludmilla Jordanova. Subjects; 1700-1799. Enlightenment. Civilization, Modern 18th century. Intellectual life. Enlightenment In European history.
Price: €125.00