Honours Special: Enlightenment and Revolution
Do ideas matter?
In this course, we will examine an age in which philosophical ideas were not hidden from view behind the walls of the Academy, but played an essential part in reform and revolution. Our aim will be to study the Enlightenment, not only as phenomenon of high culture, but also as an international phenomenon of popular and political culture.
We will read some of the great (and not-so-great) writers of the Enlightenment and set them in their historical perspective. We will consider popular reactions to Enlightened thought and culture, and will investigate the connection was between the ideas expressed in the salons of eighteenth-century Europe and the Age of Revolution.
Discipline: History
Department: Discipline of History
University: University of Adelaide
Years offered: 2005
Department: Discipline of History
University: University of Adelaide
Years offered: 2005