02054cam a2200265Ii 4500 on1051137332 OCoLC ta 210312s2019 njuac b 001 0 eng d 2018946123 9780691161327 (hardback) 0691161321 (hardback) (OCoLC)1051137332 B802 .J33 2019 Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- The secular enlightenment / Margaret C. Jacob. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford, U.K. : Princeton University Press, c2019. xi, 339 p. : ill., ports. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-325) and index. The setting: space expanded and filled anew -- Time reinvented -- Secular lives -- Paris and the materialist alternative: the Widow Stockdorff -- The Scottish enlightenment in Edinburgh -- Berlin and Vienna -- Naples and Milan -- The 1790s. Provides a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Jacob reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Jacob demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come. --Adapted from publisher description. Enlightenment. Secularism Europe History 18th century. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 B802 .J33 2019 PNLIB21061550 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 1737 1737