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What is The Portable Age of Reason Reader about?

628 pages ; 17 cm The volume attempts to capture the "age of enlightenment" in Western civilization through representative excerpts from notable authors from Descartes to the Declaration of the Rights of Man Introduction -- Suggestions for further reading -- Biographical list of authors -- Chronological tables -- Prologue: the birth of reason -- Morals and manners -- Education -- Politics and economics -- The principles of 1776 and 1789 -- The heavenly city -- The ways of reason: philosophy and natural science -- Nature and Nature's God: religion -- Sense and sensibility: literature -- Self-revelation: memoirs and letters -- Epilogue: reason becomes revolution Includes bibliography

Author

Brinton, Crane, 1898-1968, editor

Publisher

New York: Viking Press

Published

1956

Language

EN