The radical enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin
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Author
Publication
1997 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL994668M
- ISBN-100801854458
- OCLC Control Number35159317
- OCLC Control Numberradicalenlighten0000ande
- Library of Congress Control Number96033236
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- LibraryThing4235333
- Goodreads2331257
Classifications
- DDC973.3/092
- LCCE302.6.F8 A57 1997
Description
In The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin Anderson takes a fresh look at the intellectual roots of one of the most engaging and multifaceted of America's founders. Anderson begins by tracing the evolution of young Franklin's theology of works between the letters of Silence Dogood (1722) and his impassioned defense of the heterodox Irish clergyman Samuel Hemphill in 1735. He places the twenty-five-year production of Poor Richard's Almanac in the context of early eighteenth-century moral and educational psychology. He examines the broad intellectual continuities uniting Franklin's 1726 journal of his return voyage to Philadelphia with successive editions of his Experiments and Observations on Electricity, first published in 1751. And he offers a careful examination of Franklin's seminal, and controversial, 1751 essay "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind."
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Series Statement
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
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