The Enlightenment in National Context by Roy S Porter
The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used. It brings out the regional divergences of the Enlightenment experience, shaped by different local intellectual and economic priorities. At the same time it also shows how central concerns (with virtue, patriotism, liberty and modernisation) were shared everywhere, and how the writings of certain key areas (such as France and England) came to be influential elsewhere. The thirteen essays, each written by a historian specialising in the particular country, examine national contexts from Sweden to Italy, from Russia to North America. As well as focusing attention on the interplay of thought and action, ideology and society, the book offers important insights into the place of the intelligentsia in the modern world.
Roy Porter zahlt zu den renommiertesten Medizinhistorikern der Welt. Er war Professor fur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin am Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London und hat zahlreiche Bucher zu medizin- und sozialgeschichtlichen Themen verfasst und herausgegeben. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte waren die Medizin des 18. Jahrhunderts, die Geschichte der Psychiatrie und die Geschichte der Quacksalberei. Dietrich von Engelhardt charakterisiert ihn in seinem Geleitwort zum vorliegenden Buch so: >>Porter, produktiv und vital im Gesprach, im Vortrag wie im literarischen Schaffen, ist ein profunder und geistreicher Kenner der historischen Entwicklung der Medizin und gehort zu jenen Medizinhistorikern der Gegenwart, die stets die immanenten Dimensionen der Medizin mit den sozialkulturellen Hintergrunden in Verbindung bringen.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521282123 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521282128 |
| Title | The Enlightenment in National Context |
| Author | Roy S Porter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1981-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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