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Author Nadon, Christopher, 1963-

Title Enlightenment and Secularism : Essays on the Mobilization of Reason.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
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Contents Acknowledgments; Foreword; Enlightenment and Secularism: Introduction; Italian; 1 Reason, Authority, and the People in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy; 2 Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict; British and Dutch; 3 The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; 4 The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the Prospects of the Secularization Project; 5 Bacon's New Atlantis: From Faith in God to Faith in Progress; 6 Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of Secularization: Pieter De la Court's Political Maxims of the State of Holland (1662).
7 Locke, Capitalism, and the Bible8 Hume's Critique and Defense of Religion; 9 The Theological Roots of Secular Modernism; French; 10 Montaigne, Secularism, and the Enlightenment; 11 Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and the Origins of Liberal Sociology; 12 Godfathers and Spiritual Warriors: The Political Philosophy of Pierre Bayle; 13 Voltaire and the Lettres philosophiques; 14 Montesquieu and the Spirit of Secularism: Books 24 and 25 of The Spirit of the Laws; 15 Between Religious Fanaticism and Philosophical Fanaticism: Rousseau's "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar."
16 Tocqueville's Puzzling SecularismAmerican; 17 American Mutual Assistance Practices in the Age of the Enlightenment; 18 Nature and Nature's God in Notes on the State of Virginia; 19 Secularism and the Logic of American Constitutionalism; 20 The World through Ben's Bifocals; German; 21 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Religious Pluralism in Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy; 22 Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy and Liberalism in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem; 23 Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy and the Crisis of Secularism.
24 Friedrich Schiller, Secular Virtue, and "The Gods of Ancient Greece" (1788)25 Aesthetic Education in Mozart's Magic Flute; 26 Kant's Secular Religion: Philosophical Theodicy and The Book of Job; 27 Hegel and Secularism; 28 Freud's Moses: The Enlightenment Bible of a Godless Jew; Index; About the Contributors.
Summary Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Enlightenment.
Enlightenment.
Secularism.
Secularism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Arkush, Allan.
Bailey, Jeremy D.
Baumann, Fred.
Behnegar, Alice.
Behnegar, Nasser.
Biale, David.
Blitz, Mark.
Clark, Henry C.
DiSpalatro, Dean.
Faulkner, Robert.
Glenn, Brian J.
Hanley, Ryan.
High, Jeffrey L.
Janssens, David.
Lerner, Ralph.
Lynch, Christopher.
Major, Rafael.
Minkov, Svetozar.
Radasanu, Andrea.
Rahe, Paul A.
Scott, John T.
Shell, Susan Meld.
Storey, Benjamin.
Thomas, George.
Von Schwerin-High, Friederike.
Wakefield, Andre.
Other Form: Print version: Nadon, Christopher. Enlightenment and Secularism : Essays on the Mobilization of Reason. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2013 9780739177471
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