Tag: Enlightenment

Free Download Pauls Daija, "Literary History and Popular Enlightenment in Latvian Culture"
English | ISBN: 1443855170 | 2017 | 160 pages | PDF | 700 KB
The Enlightenment of peasants, an 18th-century phenomenon that originated from an interest in common people and ideas of about the emancipation of the lower classes, had a crucial impact on creating Latvian secular literary culture. When Baltic German intellectuals, inspired by the Popular Enlightenment in German-speaking countries, undertook the task to educate Latvian peasants through books, they also laid the foundation for the future emancipation of Latvian culture. By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the second part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, this book offers insights into the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.

Free Download Mary McAlpin, "The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France "
English | ISBN: 1032255536 | 2023 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility.

Free Download The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (Studies in Jewish History) by Steven M. Lowenstein
English | June 2, 1994 | ISBN: 0195083261 | True PDF | 320 pages | 22.1 MB
The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community.

Free Download The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (Studies in Jewish History) by Steven M. Lowenstein
English | June 2, 1994 | ISBN: 0195083261 | True PDF | 320 pages | 22.1 MB
The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community.

Free Download Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment: From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law By Michael Stolleis (auth.), Yasutomo Morigiwa, Michael Stolleis, Jean-Louis Halperin (eds.)
2011 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 9400715056 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the actual practice of the interpretation of law in the Age of Enlightenment versus the ideology of the Age and explains the reason for and difference between the two. The ideology of the Age of Enlightenment was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated, thus making interpretation redundant. However, the reality was that in the 18th century, there was no one leading source of national law that would be the object of interpretation. Instead, there was a plurality of sources of law: the Roman Law, local customary law, and the royal ordinance. Yet, in deciding a case in a court of law, the law must speak with one voice, making interpretation to unify the norms inevitable. This book discusses the process involved and the role played by justification in terms of reason – the hallmark of Enlightenment.

Free Download Jan Assmann, "Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0745668437, 0745668429 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.0 mb
In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West – that of ‘religio duplex’, or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can distinguish the two faces of ancient religions more generally: the outer face (that of the official religion) and the inner face (encompassing the mysterious nature of religious experience).

Free Download Joseph Heath, "Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives"
English | 2014 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0062342894, 1443422533 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Winner of the 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Free Download The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Audiobook)
English | November 01, 2016 | ASIN: B01MF5IFYG | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 5m | 264 MB
Author and Narrator: Anthony Gottlieb
The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.
Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period – from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution – Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story, and that of the birth of modern philosophy.

Free Download On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice From the Great Tibetan Masters (Audiobook)
English | December 09, 2014 | ASIN: B00OTWCZSK | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 17m | 171 MB
Author: Matthieu Ricard | Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche inspired Matthieu Ricard to create this anthology by telling him that "when we come to appreciate the depth of the view of the eight great traditions [of Tibetan Buddhism] and also see that they all lead to the same goal without contradicting each other, we think, ‘Only ignorance can lead us to adopt a sectarian view.’" Ricard has selected and translated some of the most profound and inspiring teachings from across these traditions.
The selected teachings are taken from the sources of the traditions, including the Buddha himself, Nagarjuna, Guru Rinpoche, Atisha, Shantideva, and Asanga; from great masters of the past, including Thogme Zangpo, the Fifth Dalai Lama, Milarepa, Longchenpa, and Sakya Pandita; and from contemporary masters, including the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Mingyur Rinpoche. They address such topics as the nature of the mind; the foundations of taking refuge, generating altruistic compassion, acquiring merit, and following a teacher; view, meditation, and action; and how to remove obstacles and make progress on the path.

Free Download Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, "What Is Enlightenment?: Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings"
English | ISBN: 0739193678 | 2016 | 404 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Libya have fragmented shar’iya (legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: "revolutionary legitimacy," "electoral legitimacy," "legitimacy of the street," and "consensual legitimacy." This volume examines whether the Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with possible progression toward modernity or regression toward neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two centuries.