Author

Publication

1994 - Blackwell, Oxford, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing523733
  • Goodreads4922385

Classifications

  • DDC940.2/53
  • LCCB802 .I4 1994

Description

Im Hof describes the universities, academies, salons, and reading societies from which the principal ideas of the Enlightenment occured, and he examines their diffusion, interaction, and influence. Ideas evolved from the enlightenment include the idea o f Natural Right, laissez faire economics, and the freedom of the subject, and provided the basis for democracy, enlightened despotism, and anarchy.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Making of Europe

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