A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought
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DOI: 10.1017/s0003055424000650
Abstract: This article formulates an original account of the Enlightenment through an interpretation of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins, a landmark work of transatlantic anti-colonial thought. It defends a dialectical account of the Enlightenment… read more here.
Keywords: enlightenment; enlightenment james; colonialism; singular enlightenment ... See more keywords
Bīsotūn and the French Enlightenment
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186318000184
Abstract: Abstract This study examines a little-known case of Enlightenment knowledge transmission centred on the rock-cut monument of Darius I at Bīsotūn in western Iran. It discusses a report on the monument published by the cartographer… read more here.
Keywords: french enlightenment; sot; enlightenment; sot french ... See more keywords
MORAL CULTURE AND HISTORICAL PROGRESS IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244317000646
Abstract: We continue to be intrigued by the Scottish Enlightenment. How was it that a relatively remote country on the geographical periphery of Europe—with a harsh climate, a largely mountainous terrain, a strict Calvinist creed, a… read more here.
Keywords: progress; scottish enlightenment; philosophy; moral culture ... See more keywords
Chemistry and slavery in the Scottish Enlightenment
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DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1738747
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Scottish Enlightenment has long been identified with abolitionism because of the writings of the moral and economic philosophers and the absence of slaves in Scotland itself. However, Scots were disproportionately represented in the… read more here.
Keywords: chemistry; slavery scottish; chemistry slavery; scottish enlightenment ... See more keywords
‘What was moderate about the enlightenment?’ Moderation in eighteenth-century Europe
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2024.2319385
Abstract: ABSTRACT Abstract: What does it mean to refer to the enlightenment as ‘moderate’? One answer to this question, and the one which abounds in historiography of enlightenment in the past two decades, is that of… read more here.
Keywords: enlightenment; eighteenth century; history; century europe ... See more keywords
The moderate Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces: Gustav von Bergmann
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2024.2319389
Abstract: ABSTRACT Gustav von Bergmann (1749–1814) was a Lutheran pastor in Livland, one of the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. Being interested in Enlightenment ideas, he published a string of literary, historical and political works… read more here.
Keywords: enlightenment; enlightenment baltic; baltic provinces; von bergmann ... See more keywords
Thomas Johnson: the publisher as an agent of Enlightenment
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DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2017.1377372
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article discusses the varied business practices of the eighteenth-century publisher Thomas Johnson. It develops our understanding of the Enlightenment, as experienced by its participants and as a historical phenomenon, by cataloguing Johnson’s creation… read more here.
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Women, love and power in Enlightenment Scotland
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2017.1306917
Abstract: ABSTRACT The significance of the Enlightenment for women’s power in society and culture has been a topic of significant historiographical debate. This article looks at how women were located within the discourse of the Scottish… read more here.
Keywords: scotland; power enlightenment; women love; power ... See more keywords
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the Jewish priests of the Old Testament and the trope of imposture
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DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2018.1402447
Abstract: ABSTRACT In recent years, the Radical Enlightenment has been primarily associated with the philosophical criticism of Spinoza and his disciples. But the Radical Enlightenment’s attack on Christianity did not solely hinge on the philosophical grounding… read more here.
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Accounting History and the Enlightenment – an introduction
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DOI: 10.1177/1032373218822011
Abstract: In 1784, Immanuel Kant wrote an essay entitled: “Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?). The initial paragraph of Kant’s essay defined a lack of Enlightenment as existing when… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; eighteenth century; accounting history; enlightenment ... See more keywords
Porcelain and Catholic Enlightenment: The Zwettler Tafelaufsatz
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DOI: 10.1215/00982601-9273020
Abstract: The mastery of a hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major natural philosophical achievement for the European Enlightenment. From the outset, the material possessed a representative function at the Saxon court, where… read more here.
Keywords: catholic enlightenment; zwettler tafelaufsatz; enlightenment; porcelain ... See more keywords