IDE 2048 og IDE 4048
Anbefalt oversiktslitteratur
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005 eller senere utgaver.
Ellen Krefting og Anne Beate Maurseth (Red.), Mennesket. Arven fra opplysningstiden, Scandinavian Academic Press, Oslo 2008.
Originallitteratur
Montesquieu: L’Esprit des lois - engelsk oversettelse: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Bok 11: “On the laws that form political liberty in its relation with the constitution”
Bok 12: “On the laws that form political liberty in relation to the citizen”
Bok 14: “On the laws in their relation to the nature of the climate”
Bok 19: “On the laws in their relation with the principles forming the general spirit, the mores, and the manners of a nation”
Voltaire: Filosofiske brev (Aschehoug, 2007)
Rousseau: Du contrat social – engelsk oversettelse i The Social Contract and other later political writings (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Diderot (m. fl.): Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers; følgende oppslagsord:
“Encyclopédie”
“Histoire”
”Gens de lettres”
”Philosophe”
”Vertu”
* Lenke til engelske oversettelser av disse oppslagsordene vil bli lagt inn i Fronter ved semesterstart.
d’Alembert: Discours préliminaire de l'encyclopédie – engelsk oversettelse: Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot (Chicago 1995)
Kunnskapstreet (“Système figuré des Connaissances humaines”)
* Lenke til engelsk oversettelse av denne plansjen vil bli lagt inn i Fronter ved semesterstart
Mandeville: Fable of the Bees (Penguin Classics, 1989) - finnes også i en rekke andre utgaver
Swift: “The Battle of the Books”, Major Works (Oxford University Press, 2003) - finnes også i en rekke andre utgaver
Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; følgende utvalg:
Kap 15: “The progress of the Christian Religion, and the sentiments, manners, numbers, and condition of the primitive Christians”
Kap 16. “Conduct of the Roman government towards the Christians, from the reign of Nero to that of Constantine”
“General Ovservetions on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”
Kap 71: “Prospect of the Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century. Four Causes of Decay and Destruction. Conclusion of the Whole Work”
* Lenke til dette tekstutvalget vil bli lagt inn i Fronter ved semesterstart.
Hume: Natural History of Religion
* Lenke til denne teksten vil bli lagt inn i Fronter ved semesterstart.
Hume: Fra Essays:
”Of Superstition and Enthusiasm”
“Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations”
“Of the Jealousy of Trade”
“On the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences”
* Lenke til disse tekstene vil bli lagt inn i Fronter ved semesterstart.
Kant: ”Was ist Aufklärung?” – engelsk oversettelse i Political Writings (Cambridge, 2003); norsk oversettelse i J.G. Hamann: Opplysning og kors (Aschehoug, 2003)