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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
Series: Studies in Modern History
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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. 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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