Enlightenment and Secularism (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Redaktion: Nadon, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are designed to be of particular use to those teaching and studying the history of the Enlightenment within a liberal arts curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216206071
• Artikelnr.: 74831118

Autorenporträt

Christopher Nadon is Associate Professor in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College. He is author of Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia, and articles on the separation of church and state in the early modern era.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Christopher Lynch, "Reason, Authority, and the People in
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy."
Chapter 2: Christopher Nadon, "Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict."
English and Dutch
Chapter 3: Rafael Major, "The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare's Merchant
of Venice."
Chapter 4: Svetozar Minkov, "The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the
Prospects of the Secularization Project."
Chapter 5: Robert Faulkner, "Bacon's New Atlantis: From Faith in God to
Faith in Progress."
Chapter 6: Henry Clark, "Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of
Secularization: Pieter De la Court's Political Maxims of the State of
Holland."
Chapter 7: Nasser Behnegar, "Locke, Capitalism, and the Bible."
Chapter 8: Ryan Hanley, "Hume's Critique and Defense of Religion."
Chapter 9: Andre Wakefield, "The Theological Roots of Secular Modernism."
French
Chapter 10: Benjamin Storey, "Montaigne, Secularism, and the
Enlightenment."
Chapter 11: Paul Rahe, "Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and the Origins of
Liberal Sociology."
Chapter 12: Dean DiSpalatro, "Godfathers and Spiritual Warriors: The
Political Philosophy ofPierre Bayle."
Chapter 13: Johnson Kent Wright, "Voltaire and the Lettres philosophiques."
Chapter 14: Andrea Radasanu, "Montesquieu and the Spirit of Secularism:
Books 24 and 25 of The Spirit of the Laws."
Chapter 15: John Scott, "Between Religious Fanaticism and Philosophical
Fanaticism:
Rousseau's 'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar.'"'
Chapter 16: Alice Behnegar, "Tocqueville's Puzzling Secularism."
American
Chapter 17: Brian J. Glenn, "American Mutual Assistance Practices in the
Age of the Enlightenment."
Chapter 18: Jeremy Bailey, "Nature and Nature's God in Jefferson's Notes on
the State of Virginia."
Chapter 19: George Thomas, "Secularism and the Logic of American
Constitutionalism."
Chapter 20: Ralph Lerner,"The World through Ben's Bifocals."
German
Chapter 21: Friederike von Schwerin-High, "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's
Religious Pluralism in Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy."
Chapter 22: Allan Arkush, "Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy
and Liberalism in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem."
Chapter 23: David Janssens, "Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy
and the Crisis of Secularism."
Chapter 24: Jeffery L. High,"Friedrich Schiller, Secular Virtue, and'The
Gods of Ancient Greece.'"
Chapter 25: Fred E. Bauman, "Aesthetic Education in Mozart's Magic Flute."
Chapter 26: Susan Meld Shell, "Kant's Secular Religion: Philosophical
Theodicy and The Book of Job."
Chapter 27: Mark Blitz, "Hegel and Secularism."
Chapter 28: David Biale, "Freud's Moses: The Enlightenment Bible of a
Godless Jew."