Margaret Jacob - The Secular Enlightenment

The Secular Enlightenment

Category: Documentary

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Tags: Documentary, Misc. Non-fiction, Romance

The Secular Enlightenment By: Margaret Jacob Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley Length: 10 hrs, Publishers Summary, The Secular Enlightenment is 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 landmark 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., Margaret 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 listeners 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. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of