Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe write by Silvia Berti. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteenth century. Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed. The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine writings available in the Enlightenment, which is most important for understanding the develop ment of religious scepticism, radical deism, and even atheism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars for the last couple of decades have been trying to assess when the work was actually written or compiled and by whom. In view of the widespread distribution of manu scripts of the work all over Europe, they have also been seeking to find out who was influenced by the work, and what it represented for its time. Hitherto unknown manuscripts are being turned up in public and private libraries all over Europe and the United States.
The English Deists
The English Deists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Deists write by Wayne Hudson. This book was released on 2015-10-06. The English Deists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.
Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France
Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France write by R.L. Williams. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the invention of a nomenclature that could be universally applied and understood. The key that enabled Linnaeus to devise his classification system was the discovery of the sexuality of plants. The book, which is intended for the educated general reader, proceeds to illustrate how many aspects of French life were permeated by this revolution in botany between about 1760 to 1815, a botanophilia sometimes inflated into botanomania. The reader should emerge with a clearer understanding of what the Enlightenment actually was in contrast to some popular second-hand ideas today.
A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia
A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia write by Raffaella Faggionato. This book was released on 2006-01-18. A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first investigation of the history of Russian Freemasonry, based on the premise that the facts of the Russian Enlightenment preclude application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought. Coverage includes the development of early Russian masonry, the formation of the Novikov circle in Moscow, the ‘programme’ of Rosicrucianism and its Russian variant and, finally, the clash between the Rosicrucians and the State.
Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe
Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe write by Martin van Gelderen. This book was released on 2005-07-14. Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This 2002 volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.
