The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Portable Library)

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.

• The Enlightenment (New Approaches to European History)
• The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (Vol. 1) (Enlightenment an Interpretation) (v. 1)
• The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom (Vol. 2) (Enlightenment an Interpretation) (v. 2)
• Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... Contract, The State of War (Hackett Classics)
• The Prince (Norton Critical Editions)
• The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)
• The Portable Renaissance Reader
• To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
• The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
• Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Hackett Classics)