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Uses of Education
Stephen Bygrave
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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 481.
This ambitious book takes education as a paradigm for eighteenth-century thinking, especially "Enlightenment." That egalitarian project required limits on those who could profit. Hundreds of English educational treatises between 1762 and 1800 demonstrate that education emerged as the concern of a modern public then. The book engages on philosophical and historical fronts in an informed, competent, and readable manner. Although not a history of education in the eighteenth century, it reads symptomatic texts from successive periods: from Adam Smith's response to Mandeville, through the legacies of Chesterfield and Sheridan, to the 1790s. This is coupled with addresses to three crucial ... Read more
This ambitious book takes education as a paradigm for eighteenth-century thinking, especially "Enlightenment." That egalitarian project required limits on those who could profit. Hundreds of English educational treatises between 1762 and 1800 demonstrate that education emerged as the concern of a modern public then. The book engages on philosophical and historical fronts in an informed, competent, and readable manner. Although not a history of education in the eighteenth century, it reads symptomatic texts from successive periods: from Adam Smith's response to Mandeville, through the legacies of Chesterfield and Sheridan, to the 1790s. This is coupled with addresses to three crucial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483208
SKU
V9781611483208
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About Stephen Bygrave
Stephen Bygrave is reader in English at the University of Southampton.
Reviews for Uses of Education
Bygrave presents the Enlightenment as a rich and multifaceted movement in which debate and self-criticism pushed ideas in new directions, even as its contributors continued to use the intellectual tools of the past.
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