Enlightenment Literary Movement

• Burke, Edmund@
• Defoe, Daniel@
• Descartes, René@
• Diderot, Denis@
• Hobbes, Thomas@

• Kant, Immanuel@
• Paine, Thomas@
• Pope, Alexander@
• Swift, Jonathan@
• Voltaire@

• Newton, Isaac@

• The Age of Enlightenment  - Presents impact of the movement in arts, literature, and philosophy, with opposition, religious reaction, and political patterns.
• The Age of Reason (1660 - 1780)  - Covers movement overview, as well as major ideas, events, authors and their works.
• Age of the Enlightenment  - Course handout explores social milieu, intellectual setting, method, enlightenment and religion, history, and social science and political thought.
• The Enlightenment  - Article looks at rationalism, empiricism, encyclopedists, logic, determinism, and Immanuel Kant.
• The Enlightenment  - Discusses this movement, also called the Age of Reason, including roots, politics and economics, aristocratic influence, and its heritage.
• Fordham University: Enlightenment  - Contains links to resources on the movement, propaganda, politics, economics, philosophy, social settings, and religion in the Age of Reason.
• The Philosophies of Enlightenment  - Lecture sheet addresses Descartes, British and French empiricism, encyclopedists, materialists, the anti-rationalist trend, and the German movement.