World History › Section R · Enlightenment and revolution › Topic R.2
Ideas in the public sphere
Enlightenment ideas did not spread by themselves. They travelled through coffeehouses, salons, letters, cheap print and learned societies, places where private people could argue about public affairs, and who could enter those places shaped whose voices counted.
In this topic
- A new space for argument
- Coffee from Yemen to Istanbul
- Coffeehouses in Europe
- Worked example: Charles II's failed ban
- The salons of Paris
- The Republic of Letters
- Print and the Encyclopédie
- Academies and universities
- Who was left out
- Worked example: Habermas and his critics
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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