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Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from ...
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird +4 more
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The period from the Treaty of Kanghwa (1876) until the fall of the Korean Empire (1897–1910) is commonly characterized as a period of kaehwa—Enlightenment—in which the Chosŏn state strived to reform and modernize.
Jihyun Kim
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Jean Meslier, a largely forgotten figure of the history of political thought, is a radical thinker of the Enlightenment, and one who best illustrates Israel’s thesis about the period. This article, which proposes to set Meslier’s work in his intellectual
Charles Devellennes
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the matter of Troy [PDF]
The modern world knows the Scottish Enlightenment as the nursery of today’s social sciences, when the outlines of economics, sociology and anthropology first became apparent in the works of Adam Smith and his contemporaries.
Kidd, Colin Craig
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The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism
This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist attitudes were acceptable.
Virpi Luoma
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Early conservative critique of the enlightenment [PDF]
Analyzing its relationship to reason, tradition, social organization and other key moments of disagreement, the article exposes how the early post-revolutionary Conservatism criticizing the Enlightenment and, at the same time, articulate their own learning.
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Identity, enlightenment and political dissent in late colonial Spanish America [PDF]
During the long crisis of the Spanish empire between 1810 and 1825, the Creole leaders of Spanish American independence asserted a new identity for the citizens of the states which they sought to establish, calling them 'Americanos'.
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Condillac ou l’idéal pédagogique des Lumières
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, heir to John Locke, is part of the intellectual excitement of Enlightenment thought. Inverting empiricism into sensualism, Condillac developed a theory of knowledge that emphasized the fundamental role of sensory experience ...
Josiane Guitard-Morel
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German early Romanticism was an intellectual movement that originated in the era between the great French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Usually, it is defined in contrast to the Enlightenment.
Asko Nivala
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Urbanization, Culture and the Dutch Origins of the European Enlightenment
The Dutch Republic currently plays a prominent role in the big debates on the origins and nature of the European Enlightenment. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the role played by urbanization in this.
Wijnand W. Mijnhardt
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