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Hace 4 días · By the mid-18th century, the Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature. Christian Wolff was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers and legitimized German as a philosophic language.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Understanding The Enlightenment Era of the 18th Century. By Jennis Jacob / April 25, 2024. The Enlightenment Era also called the Age of Reason, spans from the year 1700 to 1798. Revolutionary in its ways, this period emphasized on rationality, empiricism, and the questioning of traditional authority.
22 de abr. de 2024 · “Voltaire” is the pen name under which French author-philosopher François-Marie Arouet published a number of books and pamphlets in the 18th century. He was a key figure in the European intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment .
- Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer. In his lifetime he published numerous works, including books, plays, poems, and polemics. His most fa...
- Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority—religious...
- Voltaire dominated the discourse of his era. In his writing, he left virtually no subject untouched. Voltaire wrote on subjects as distinct as meta...
Hace 2 días · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. The history of the Enlightenment can sometimes appear as a male narrative, dominated by canonical male writers, with women appearing only as subjects denied an equality of rationality and ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · ENG 242 - British Literature II: Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800) This course covers selected works in British literature from the Romantic Period to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama.
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Hace 5 días · In 18th-century Europe, scholars and political theorists produced reams of texts advocating “toleration, equality, liberty, cosmopolitanism, and natural rights” alongside works defining hierarchical categories based on “race, sex, and gender.”. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson argues that inclusive and ...
Hace 5 días · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
