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Seeking enlightenment-- hat by hat Seeking enlightenment-- hat by hat Nevada Barr A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author… OL134407W
James Boswell. Corsica. Überarbeitet, illustriert und eingeleitet von Dirk Gerdes (nach der dtsch. … James Boswell. Corsica. Überarbeitet, illustriert und eingeleitet von Dirk Gerdes (nach der dtsch. … Dirk Gerdes Slightly modernized translation of James Boswells famous "Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to this Island and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli", following the first German edition from 1769. Illustra… OL15435167W
Dictionnaire des vies privées (1722-1842) Dictionnaire des vies privées (1722-1842) Olivier Ferret An overview of clandestine satirical biographies of key figures in the French 18th century followed by a dictionary of these biographies. OL15993561W
The Devil in disguise The Devil in disguise Mark Knights The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral cultur… OL16116469W
Hume and the Enlightenment Hume and the Enlightenment Craig Taylor,Stephen Buckle While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Although historically an Enlightenment figure, this ident… OL16988088W
The dark side of the enlightenment The dark side of the enlightenment John V. Fleming In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment, generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstitio… OL17835832W
The Enlightenment The Enlightenment Dunn, John M. Discusses various aspects of the Enlightenment including its roots, philosophes, attacks on Christianity, revolt against reason, campaigns to reform society, and legacy. OL1831039W
How enlightenment changes your brain How enlightenment changes your brain Andrew B. Newberg "The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help readers experience its many benefits,"--Amazon.com. OL19665793W
Fire and light Fire and light James MacGregor Burns Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this … OL19970764W
Vivir peligrosamente en tiempos extraordinarios Vivir peligrosamente en tiempos extraordinarios Osho Osho es conocido como una de las figuras más provocativas de nuestro tiempo. Este libro, compuesto de una selección de sus intempestivos discursos, nos presenta una visión general de los conceptos cl… OL20023698W
Pioneers Pioneers S. An-sky 1 online resource OL20210293W
Monstrous dreams of reason Monstrous dreams of reason Mita Choudhury,Laura J. Rosenthal "This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, re… OL23743947W
The problem of being modern, or, The German pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Rev… The problem of being modern, or, The German pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Rev… Thomas P. Saine “Saine’s book consists of a revised translation of a German version published in 1987 combined with articles published elsewhere. However, in its new Gestalt, it is nothing less than a milestone in t… OL2646820W
Passionate minds Passionate minds David Bodanis "It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Chatelet, a beguiling - and married - aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's t… OL2660603W
Cannibals and Philosophers Cannibals and Philosophers Daniel Cottom "Taking us to the heart of the Enlightenment via the stomach, Daniel Cottom argues that the period was from the beginning obsessed with guts and disgust as much as it was with mind and reason. In Can… OL3238563W
Nervous acts Nervous acts G. S. Rousseau "Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-centur… OL4210917W
Evening in the Palace of Reason Evening in the Palace of Reason James R. Gaines "James R. Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason sets up what seems to be the ultimate mismatch: a young, glamorously triumphant warrior-king, heralded by Voltaire as the very It Boy of the Enlight… OL5879228W
Enlightenment against empire Enlightenment against empire Sankar Muthu Describes the philosophies and arguments against Europe's imperial relation with the non-European world developed by pre-Enlightenment and early Enlightenment thinkers OL5960654W
Sexual antipodes Sexual antipodes Pamela Cheek "The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of … OL5968789W
On Enlightenment On Enlightenment David Stove "David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive t… OL8515373W
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