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Title Light in Germany : scenes from an unknown Enlightenment / T. J. Reed.
Author Reed, T. J. (Terence James), 1937- author.
Publisher Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 8  History FH370 REE  

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Description xiii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780226205106 cloth : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages 267-278) and index.
Contents Out of darkness -- Coming of age: the primal scene -- A world of our own: an epistemology for action -- Hope in history: making the past serve the future -- Talking to tyrants: pens against power -- Cosmopolitan quandaries: among savages, far and near -- The empty heavens: from dogma to ethics -- Apples and after: the gravity of science -- Good guardianship: light through education -- Communication and beyond: means or end? -- The full earth: a lyrical Enlightenment -- Peace in whose time? the ultimate prize -- A conclusion? toward Enlightenment.
Library Class History FH370
Subject Enlightenment -- Germany.
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.

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