The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self (Audiobook)
The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self (Audiobook) By Professor Leo Damrosch
Publisher: The Te achi ng Com pany 2000 | 12 hours and 15 mins | ISBN: 1565856600 | MP3 | 176 MB
Publisher: The Te achi ng Com pany 2000 | 12 hours and 15 mins | ISBN: 1565856600 | MP3 | 176 MB
You are a product of the Enlightenment. In fact, the philosophy behind so much that has created the modern concept of Self—politics, economics, psychology, science and technology, education, art—was invented as recently as the Enlightenment of the 18th century. In The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self, literary scholar Leo Damrosch of Harvard University considers the time when ideas about the self were first considered. Through the eyes of the Enlightenment's greatest writers, you follow the origin of new ways of thinking—ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent—about the individual and society. You see how these notions emerged in an era of transition from a world dominated by classical thought, institutional religion, and the aristocracy to one that was increasingly secular, scientific, skeptical, and middle class. The 18th century was a crucible for new questions that, among other things:
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