Die Epoche der Aufklrung

This revised new edition provides an overview of various topics, including the early modern period from the end of the Thirty Years War to the French Revolution; Enlightenment as era or open-ended political project; changing awareness at the dawn of modernity; the rise of the knowledge society; state systems, colonialism, discourses of power and rule; and places, protagonists and luminaries of the European Enlightenment.