The roads to modernity the British, French, and American enlightenments

Main Author:	Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Enlightenment > Great Britain. Enlightenment > France. Enlightenment > United States. Intellectual life > History. Philosophy, Modern > 18th century. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century. France > Intellectual life > 18th century. United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
The British Enlightenment : the sociology of virtue. "Social affections" and religious dispositions ; Political economy and moral sentiments ; Edmund Burke's Enlightenment ; Radical dissenters ; Methodism : "a social religion" ; "The age of benevolence"
The French Enlightenment : the ideology of reason
The American Enlightenment : the politics of liberty
Epilogue.