Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published...  Read More >>

This book recovers the Scottish Enlightenment's forgotten commentary on the French Revolution. It argues that this...  Read More >>

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Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than...  Read More >>

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Unabridged English value reproduction of Candide by Voltaire, is a book that belongs on the shelf of those desiring...  Read More >>

In Wales Unchained a leading scholar in cultural studies explores the ways in which the Welsh have defined themselves...  Read More >>

Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice,...  Read More >>

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This book develops a new reading of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, reconstructing his main...  Read More >>

"""Arguing that philosophical and historical views of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone...  Read More >>

Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the...  Read More >>

"""Dad, what is a photographer?"" My daughter went straight to the point that has been puzzling me for years. This...  Read More >>

A collection edited and published posthumously by James's colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912.  Read More >>

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'Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' offers a critical intervention into the effects of...  Read More >>

"In the Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was...  Read More >>

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France,...  Read More >>

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France,...  Read More >>

Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was...  Read More >>

Germany's political and cultural past, from ancient times through World War II, has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part...  Read More >>

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Published here for the first time, Reid's Glasgow lecture notes and his papers to learned societies in Aberdeen...  Read More >>