Введение: Восток и Запад в XVIII веке

Гл. 1. С. 5–11.

Karp S. Y., Мельянцев В. А.

The traditional perception of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon, which was limited to European countries and their sphere of influence, was enriched by the perception of this era as a qualitatively new stage in global cultural interaction. The rapid development of contacts between Europe and other civilizations gave contemporaries rich pabulum for reflection on the unity and diversity of the fates of countries and peoples. Do the values closely related to the heritage of the European 18th century (i.e. the ideals of freedom, human rights, progress) have an absolute and universal character? Is it worth fighting to spread them more widely? Or should the inevitability of the coexistence of different value systems, not only in the world but also within individual countries be recognized? How, then, will they be integrated into the process of globalization? These questions, rooted in the Age of Enlightenment, are particularly relevant today.

Keywords: эпоха Просвещения, XVIII век, the Age of Enlightenment, Восток и Запад, east and west, 18th century

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Всемирная история. Том 4. Мир в XVIII веке / отв. ред. С.Я. Карп. М.: Наука, 2019.2-е издание, исправленное и дополненное

Karp S. Y., Kamenskii A. B., Smilyanskaya E., Мельянцев В. А., Чеканцева З. А., Сточик А. М., Zatravkin S., Пименова Л. А., Цапина О. А., Ржеуцкий В. С., Лебедева Е. И., Плавинская Н. Ю., Дмитриев И. С., Колчинский Э. И., Тункина И. В., Люзебринк Х. Ю., Николаев В. П., Альперович М. С., Балезин А. С., Кириллина С. А., Орлов В. В., Коняшкина Т. А., Тюрин В. А., Ванина Е. Ю., Tertitsky K., Volchkova E., Meshcheryakov A., Чудинов А. В., Мейер М. С., Фурсов К. А., Хрулёва И. Ю., Бовыкин Д. Ю. Академический научно-издательский, производственно-полиграфический и книгораспространительский центр Российской академии наук "Издательство "Наука", 2019.