Description: Secular Enlightenment, Hardcover by Jacob, Margaret C., ISBN 0691161321, ISBN-13 9780691161327, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday lives
The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers.
Margaret Jacob, one of our most esteemed historians of the Enlightenment, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqu book. The secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of blind economic forces.
A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.
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Book Title: Secular Enlightenment
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Secular Enlightenment
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Theology, Modern / 18th Century, Political, Europe / General, Religion, Politics & State
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, History
Author: Margaret Jacob
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
