Age of Enlightenment

Details

Instance of

cultural movement

Start time

17th century

End time

19th century

Has parts

American Enlightenment, Scottish Enlightenment, Polish Enlightenment, Modern Greek Enlightenment, Russian Enlightenment, Spanish Enlightenment, Haskalah, French Enlightenment

Follows

Classicism, Grand Siècle

Followed by

Romanticism, French Romanticism

Location

Western Europe

Said to be the same as

illuminism

described by source

Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Dresdner Hefte, Basque Literature Terms Dictionary

different from

Illuminationism, illuminationism, enlightenmentism

influenced by

renaissance humanism, Scientific Revolution

opposite of

disenlightenment

subject named as

Aufklärung

topic has template

Template:Age of Enlightenment

topic's main category

Category:Age of Enlightenment

Creators in this collection (14)

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749
• Voltaire1694
• Johann Gottfried Herder1744
• Immanuel Kant1724
• David Hume1711
• José Joaquín de Olmedo1780
• Ferenc Kazinczy1759
• Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès1748
• Benito Jerónimo Feijoo1677
• Juliana de Lannoy1738

Works in this collection (1)

• Emilia Galotti1772

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