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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Age of Enlightenment

Chapter Outline

I. The Enlightenment

  1. The Broadening Reverberations of Science
  2. Beyond Christianity
  3. The Philosophes
  4. Diderot and the Encyclopedia
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

II. Eighteenth-Century Elite Culture

  1. Cosmopolitan High Culture
  2. Publishing and Reading
  3. Literature, Music, and Art

III. Popular Culture

  1. Popular Literature
  2. Literacy and Primary Schooling
  3. Sociability and Recreation