The Society for Useful Knowledge : how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America /

The Society for Useful Knowledge : how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America /

The young Benjamin Franklin sought his fortune on a trip to England, but instead discovered a world of intellectual ferment in the coffeehouses and salons of London. He brought home to Philadelphia the intense hunger for knowledge that buzzed in a Europe where Newton, Bacon and Galileo had made epoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790 > Philosophy.
Enlightenment > United States.
Philosophy, American > 18th century.
Political science > United States > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865.
Table of Contents:
  • The age of Franklin
  • Breaking the chain
  • The leather apron men
  • Useful knowledge
  • Sense and sensibility
  • Dead and useless languages
  • Knowledge and rebellion
  • The mechanics of revolution
  • Epilogue : manufacturing America.