Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Modern History
ISBN-10
1349519235
ISBN-13
9781349519231
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 16th, 2005
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
342 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.30 x 1.90 cms
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The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge.
The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine''s phrase, as ''The Age of Reason'': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.
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