Generations of Reason

A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England

Generations of Reason
Joan L Richards
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Hardback
h24 x 16mm - 456pg
7 Jan 2022 US
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9780300255492
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An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age.
"This compelling and wide-ranging family narrative adopts a highly perceptive and novel approach to the transition from the rationalist Enlightenment to the religious, political and mathematical conflicts of Victorian Britain. "-Simon Schaffer, co-author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump "This epic masterpiece explores the connections between philosophy, mathematics, spiritualism and faith across successive generations of an utterly extraordinary family. I couldn' t put it down. "-James A. Secord, author of Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age "This fascinating family saga traces how reason became lived experience in the religion, politics, science, mathematics, spiritualism, and personal tragedy in three generations of an English family. Beautifully written, Generations of Reason vividly evokes how a commitment to living reason unfolded against the backdrop of a century of revolution, reform, and transformation. "-Lorraine Daston, author of Against Nature "This magnificent book analyses the interlinked lives of three generations of extraordinary thinkers who each grappled with the challenges of integrating their spiritual commitments with powerful and persuasive new ideas about rationality and reason-ideas that increasingly undermined their faith. In a sweeping family saga, Joan Richards' deep expertise reveals the burning concerns of a tightly knit circle of uniquely interesting men and women as they explored ways of living and believing, moving in different directions through the foundation of Unitarianism to a trust in numbers and mathematical rationality for some and spiritual theosophy for others. "-Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: A Biography
Joan L. Richards is emerita professor of history and director of the Program of Science, Society, and Technology at Brown University.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780300255492
Published: 7 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 24mm
Width: 16mm
Pages: 456

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