The Enlightenment reason, tolerance, and humanity

In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements but also on the strange and often colorful characters that populat...

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Main Author: Schmidt, James
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Series:Modern scholar.
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300 |a 7 sound discs (14 hr.) :  |b digital ;  |c 4 3/4 in. +  |e 1 course guide (64 p. : ill.) 
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500 |a In container (26 cm.). 
500 |a "14 lectures"--Container. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (guide) 
511 0 |a Lecture given by James Schmidt. 
505 0 |a The question of enlightenment -- Europe in the 1680s : the political origins of the Enlightenment -- Scientific inquiry, religious controversy, and political dissent -- Voltaire and the campaign against fanaticism -- The emergence of the public sphere I : academies and the quest -- The emergence of the public sphere II : coffeehouses and salons -- The emergence of the public sphere III : secret societies and the clandestine book trade -- Diderot and the Encyclopédie -- Dreaming philosophers and the crazy musicians : Diderot's later career -- New worlds : strange peoples, and peculiar customs -- The Scottish Enlightenment and the origins of social theory -- Enlightenment in Germany : Lessing and Mendelssohn -- An age of revolutions -- The legacies of the Enlightenment. 
520 |a In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements but also on the strange and often colorful characters that populated it. 
530 |a Issued also on cassette. 
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