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Eighteenth century. --- Classicism --- History
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Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment online is a digital collection of volumes from the "Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century" (SVEC) and "Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment" series. The series publishes scholarly work to advance learning across the disciplines of history, philosophy, theater, visual arts, science, economics, and women's studies.
Eighteenth century --- Enlightenment --- Periodicals. --- Enlightenment. --- Eighteenth century. --- Voltaire,
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Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment online is a digital collection of volumes from the "Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century" (SVEC) and "Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment" series. The series publishes scholarly work to advance learning across the disciplines of history, philosophy, theater, visual arts, science, economics, and women's studies.
Enlightenment. --- Eighteenth century. --- Enlightenment. --- Eighteenth century. --- Voltaire, --- Voltaire,
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"Although many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed {u2018}Age of Reason{u2019}, Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with the challenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. The imperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty informed some of the most innovative characteristics of eighteenth-century intellectual culture, including not only debates about epistemology and metaphysics but also matters of jurisprudence, theology, history, moral philosophy, and politics. Thinkers of this period debated about, established, and productively worked for progress within the parameters of the increasingly circumscribed boundaries of human reason. No longer considered innate and consistently perfect, reason instead became conceived as a faculty that was inherently fallible, limited by personal experiences, and in need of improvement throughout the course of any individual{u2019}s life. In its depiction of a complicated, variegated, and diverse Enlightenment culture, this volume examines the process by which philosophical skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. The various contributions collectively demonstrate that philosophical skepticism, and not simply unshakable confidence in the powers of reason or the optimistic assumption about inevitable human improvement, was, in fact, the crucible of the Enlightenment process itself." --
Enlightenment. --- Eighteenth century. --- Skepticism --- History
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Die Weimarer Klassik ist eine zentrale, wenn auch umstrittene Epoche der Literaturgeschichte. Diese Einführung skizziert die Diskussion über eine um Goethe und Schiller gruppierte ›Weimarer Klassik‹ und beschreibt ihre Voraussetzungen, Kontexte und Programmatik. Drei umfangreiche Kapitel stellen exemplarische literarische Werke Schillers und Goethes vor, geordnet nach Lyrik, Dramatik und Erzählformen.
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Eighteenth century --- Voltaire, --- Europe --- Intellectual life