The Enlightenment worldview
Naturalism, religion and moral progress
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; 2026:11;
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Product details:
- Publisher Voltaire Foundation
- Date of Publication 20 November 2026
- ISBN 9781805969617
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 700
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Long description:
What is the Enlightenment?s place in European history? Why did ideas about progress become so attractive in the eighteenth century? Which origins had the Enlightenment?s core ideas? And how can we understand the radicalisation tendencies in the second half of the eighteenth century? This book gives a new account of both the origins and the dynamics of this reform movement. It claims that the Enlightenment became so influential because it was further developing ideas from the dominant intellectual tradition initiated by university scholars. It emerged as a result of the tensions between two incompatible worldviews at the centre of Christianity, consistently expanding on one to criticise the other. This enabled intellectuals to claim they were fostering progress, to accumulate prestige and to gain patronage from leading court figures. Yet this success also created a fierce competition on the intellectual market. The result was an overbidding that radicalised ideas on politics, morality and religion. Endeavours to radically reform society, religion and political systems flourished in the latter eighteenth century, preparing the ground for revolution.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: RETHINKING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter 1: Creating a Moral Elite
Chapter 2: Men and Women of Letters in Court Society
Chapter 3: A Divine World
Chapter 4: Transcendental Naturalism
PART TWO: TOWARDS AN ENLIGHTENMENT PURITANISM
Chapter 5: Searching for Religious Purity
Chapter 6: Res publica, Nature and God
Chapter 7: Gender, Sex, and Nature
Chapter 8: Race and Transcendental Naturalism
Chapter 9: Antislavery and the Search for Divine Order
Epilogue: A Vanishing Order
