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Author | : Valerie Smith |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783275669 |
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Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. While small, the movement provoked fierce opposition from both Anglicans and Orthodox Dissenters.
Author | : Knud Haakonssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521029872 |
Download Enlightenment and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.
Author | : Louise Hickman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317228510 |
Download Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of Richard Price (1723-1791), and in the radical thought of Mary Wollstonecraft. It traces their ethico-political account of reason, natural theology and human freedom back to seventeenth century Cambridge Platonism and thereby shows how popular histories of the philosophy of religion in modernity have been over-determined both by analytic philosophy of religion and by its critics. The eighteenth century has typically been portrayed as an age of reason, defined as a project of rationalism, liberalism and increasing secularisation, leading inevitably to nihilism and the collapse of modernity. Within this narrative, the Rational Dissenters have been accused of being the culmination of eighteenth-century rationalism in Britain, epitomising the philosophy of modernity. This book challenges this reading of history by highlighting the importance of teleology, deiformity, the immutability of goodness and the divinity of reason within the tradition of Rational Dissent, and it demonstrates that the philosophy and ethics of both Price and Wollstonecraft are profoundly theological. Price’s philosophy of political liberty, and Wollstonecraft’s feminism, both grounded in a Platonic conception of freedom, are perfectionist and radical rather than liberal. This has important implications for understanding the political nature of eighteenth-century philosophical theology: these thinkers represent not so much a shaking off of religion by secular rationality but a challenge to religious and political hegemony. By distinguishing Price and Wollstonecraft from other forms of rationalism including deism and Socinianism, this book takes issue with the popular division of eighteenth-century philosophy into rationalistic and empirical strands and, through considering the legacy of Cambridge Platonism, draws attention to an alternative philosophy of religion that lies between both empiricism and discursive inference.
Author | : John Seed |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0748629483 |
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The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.
Author | : Nancy E. Johnson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108266223 |
Download Mary Wollstonecraft in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
Author | : M. H. Fitzpatrick |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
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Download Rational Dissent in the Late Eighteenth Century with Particular Reference to the Growth of Toleration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Martin Pugh Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1983 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pentland Gordon Pentland |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474405681 |
Download Liberty, Property and Popular Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career.Professor Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The volume includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.
Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Download A History of England in the Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Warren Johnston |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843836130 |
Download Revelation Restored Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An analysis of the nature of apocalyptic and millennial beliefs that reveals concerns prominent in England in the early seventeenth century had not abated after 1660.