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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Early Enlightenment"”.
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… and the occult in the period of Renaissance and early Enlightenment, contemporary philosophy of science, and the recent debates concerning modernity.
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… the values of non-Christian cultures. Early Enlightenment political theorists like John Selden and Thomas Hobbes appropriated Jewish political theory, in particular the Jewish understanding of the relationship between the Jewish polity and the State, for their own theories of …
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Biblical Criticism and Confessional Division from Jean Morin to Richard Simon, c. 1620-1685
This thesis aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of biblical criticism in the seventeenth century. Its central objective is to put forward a new interpretation of the work of the Oratorian scholar Richard Simon. It does so by placing Simon's work, above all …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
… a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who addressed their histories to an aristocratic audience and did not intend them for an immediate and …