Enlightenment Literary Movement

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Category Description:

Category for the Enlightenment writers. It includes synopsis and excerpts, glossaries, and links to writers such as Pascal, Rousseau, Descartes, Milton, Smith, and Voltaire.

  • 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.
 
 
 
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