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This course examines how, over the course of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the international movement that came to be known as "the Enlightenment" gave rise to a set of ideas, practices, and attitudes that have come to define what it means to be “modern.” While focusing, in particular, on a few major figures (e.g., Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, Lessing, and the Scottish moralists), we will also explore a variety of political tracts, philosophical essays, theological treatises, scientific writings, and pamphlet literature.

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