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The Enlightenment

Ulrich Im Hof

1994310 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Blackwell · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9780631175919
  • 1997Blackwell Publishers · 324 pages · ENGISBN 9780631205111

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.

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