Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, leichte Randl�ren, einige Seiten am Anfang des Buches weisen einen leichten Knick auf / dust jacket rubbed, light edge wear, some pages at the beginning of the book have a slight crease. - Scholars of history, philosophy, literature, and the history of science examine the sources of the Enlightenment from various perspectives in Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. The contributors argue here for a new context within which to view the sources and dynamics of the Enlightenment. They challenge the assumption that the revolution of ideas in the Enlightenment crystallized at a particular moment as a natural development of free- thought and new philosophy. These essays offer new views on specific topics in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century religion, philosophy, science, and literature. Alan Charles Kors demonstrates that atheism in French Enlightenment thought owed as much to seventeenth-century Catholic theology as it did to the philosophes. John McCarthy and J. Paul Hunter expand on the transformation of Enlightenment literary forms. Other contributions include Dale Van Kley on Pierre Nicole and Jansenism; John Andrew Bernstein on Shaftesbury and eighteenth-century social thought; Elisabeth Labrousse on Pierre Bayle; Thomas P. Saine on Christian Wolff; Margaret C. Jacob on scientific culture in the English Enlightenment; Uwe-K. Ketelsen on science and literature in the early German Enlightenment; Jocelyn Harris on Sappho, souls, and the Salic law of wit; and P. M. Mitchell on the patterns and forces of the Enlightenment. Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany will be of value to students and scholars of literature and history of the early Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. / Contents Editors' Note IntroductionAlan Charles Kors 1 Reading Pierre Bayle in ParisElisabeth Labrousse 2 "A First Being, of Whom We Have No Proof�: The Preamble of Atheism in Early-Modern FranceAlan Charles Kors 3 Pierre Nicole, Jansenism, and the Morality of Enlightened Self-Interest Dale Van Kley 4. Shaftesbury�s Optimism and Eighteenth-Century Social ThoughtJohn Andrew Bernstein 5Who's Afraid of Christian Wolff?Thomas P. Saine 6 Scientific Culture in the Early English Enlightenment: Mechanisms, Industry, and Gentlemanly FactsMargaret C. Jacob 7 Science and Literature in the Early German EnlightenmentUwe-K. Ketelsen 8 The Gallant Novel and the German Enlightenment, 1670-1750John A. McCarthy 9. The Pattern Is Perceived and the Seed Is SownP. M. Mitchell 10. Sappho, Souls, and the Salic Law of WitJocelyn Harris 11. �The Young, the Ignorant, and the Idle�: Some Notes on Readers and the Beginnings of the English NovelJ. Paul Hunter Contributors Index. ISBN 9780812280579