Enlightenment and Secularism

Christopher Nadon

doi:10.5771/9780739177488

Summary

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are designed to be of particular use to those teaching and studying the history of the Enlightenment within a liberal arts curriculum.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7747-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7748-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 390
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Enlightenment and Secularism: Introduction No access
1. 1 Reason, Authority, and the People in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy No access
2. 2 Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict No access
1. 3 The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice No access
2. 4 The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the Prospects of the Secularization Project No access
3. 5 Bacon’s New Atlantis: From Faith in God to Faith in Progress No access
4. 6 Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of Secularization: Pieter De la Court’s Political Maxims of the State of Holland (1662) No access
5. 7 Locke, Capitalism, and the Bible No access
6. 8 Hume’s Critique and Defense of Religion No access
7. 9 The Theological Roots of Secular Modernism No access
1. 10 Montaigne, Secularism, and the Enlightenment No access
2. 11 Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and the Origins of Liberal Sociology No access
3. 12 Godfathers and Spiritual Warriors: The Political Philosophy of Pierre Bayle No access
4. 13 Voltaire and the Lettres philosophiques No access
5. 14 Montesquieu and the Spirit of Secularism: Books 24 and 25 of The Spirit of the Laws No access
6. 15 Between Religious Fanaticism and Philosophical Fanaticism: Rousseau’s “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar” No access
7. 16 Tocqueville’s Puzzling Secularism No access
1. 17 American Mutual Assistance Practices in the Age of the Enlightenment No access
2. 18 Nature and Nature’s God in Notes on the State of Virginia No access
3. 19 Secularism and the Logic of American Constitutionalism No access
4. 20 The World through Ben’s Bifocals No access
1. 21 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Religious Pluralism in Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy No access
2. 22 Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy and Liberalism in Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem No access
3. 23 Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy and the Crisis of Secularism No access
4. 24 Friedrich Schiller, Secular Virtue, and “The Gods of Ancient Greece” (1788) No access
5. 25 Aesthetic Education in Mozart’s Magic Flute No access
6. 26 Kant’s Secular Religion: Philosophical Theodicy and The Book of Job No access
7. 27 Hegel and Secularism No access
8. 28 Freud’s Moses: The Enlightenment Bible of a Godless Jew No access
Index No access Pages 375 - 384
About the Contributors No access Pages 385 - 390