The idea of Europe : enlightenment perspectives /

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In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinen...

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Catriona Seth (auth), Seth, Catriona (ÜbersetzerIn, HerausgeberIn), Kulessa, Rotraud von (HerausgeberIn)
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers 2017
Open Book Publishers, 2017.
Zusammenfassung:
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s future in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. The texts gathered here, and signed by major thinkers of the ti me (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Kant, Hume or Staël for instance), as well as by writers history has forgotten, present the reflections, with a couple of chronological extensions (from Sully to Victor Hugo) of authors from the long eighteenth century—the French Empire and the fall of Napoleon generated numerous upheavals—on Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what the nations, which, in all their diversity, make up a geographical unit, have in common. They show the historical origins of the project of a European union, the desire to consolidate the continent’s ties to the Maghreb or to Turkey, the importance granted to commerce and the worries engendered by history’s convulsions, but also the hope vested in future generations.
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1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
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Also available in print form.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references.
Schriftenreihe:
Open Book classics
ISBN:
9781783743810
1783743816
9782821897328
2821897324
9781783743803
1783743808
Schlagworte:
Enlightenment > Europe.
Political culture > Europe > History.
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