The Irish Enlightenment

Michael Brown

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$41.00 • £32.95 • €37.00

ISBN 9780674045774

Publication Date: 05/02/2016

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640 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction: Locating the Irish Enlightenment
I. The Religious Enlightenment, 1688–ca. 1730
- 1. The Presbyterian Enlightenment and the Nature of Man
- 2. The Anglican Enlightenment and the Nature of God
- 3. The Catholic Enlightenment and the Nature of Law
II. The Social Enlightenment, ca. 1730–ca. 1760
- 4. Languages of Civility
- 5. The Enlightened Counter Public
- 6. Communities of Interest
III. The Political Enlightenment, ca. 1760–1798
- 7. A Culture of Trust?
- 8. Fracturing the Irish Enlightenment
- 9. An Enlightened Civil War
Conclusion: Ireland’s Missing Modernity
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

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