The Irrational in the Age of Reason: Undercurrents in the European Enlightenment

FAIN: FA-12084-78

Margaret C. Jacob
UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)

A book length study of the Enlightenment which will bring into focus social and intellectual aspects of that era which are generally ignored or unknown. The project will center on such topics as the relationship between magical and scientific thought, the world of the freethinkers, publishers, booksellers and libertines, and the enthusiastic and mystical cults of the 18th century. Study will contain a lengthy appendix devoted to primary source material.