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The Secular Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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The Secular Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's
everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of
the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in
the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book,
familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have
remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and
freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics,
pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob,
one of our most esteemed historians of the Enlightenment, reveals
how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of
Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter
the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and
Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare
archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of
secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties
once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the
newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to
pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday
mornings reading a newspaper or even a risque book. The
secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being
without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes
as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of
blind economic forces. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural
history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values
and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into
the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the
Western world for generations to come.
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