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Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution | AAR S1E1

What role did Enlightenment ideas and Thomas Paine’s concept of common sense play in shaping the American Revolution? In this conversation, Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld explores how revolutionary leaders digested and adapted European intellectual currents, and how ordinary people were imagined as capable of participating in a new kind of politics. Discover the ideas that sparked change and still influence us today.

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🚩About My 198th Guest:

Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld is a professor of history and former chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the eighteenth century for modern democracy. Her writings and works include the following books:

1) "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in the Modern World"

2) "A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France"

3) "Common Sense: A Political History "

4) "Democracy and Truth: A Short History"

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📑 Video Chapters:

00:00 Interview Highlights

02:09 Interview Introduction

03:30 Defining Enlightenment

04:33 Revolution of minds for whom?

08:41 For the Elite-or By the Elite?

12:45 One or many Enlightenments?

14:15 Reason or Enlightenment?

16:12 When was Enlightenment?

18:56 Secular or religious?

20:27 Revolution or Enlightenment?

22:28 American Revolution & Enlightenment

24:40 Was it called Enlightenment in 1700s?

27:43 “Common Sense: A Political History”

32:44 Thomas Paine & 'common sense'

35:05 'common sense' against common people

38:23 'common sense' for Revolution

39:25 'common sense' afterlife

42:20 The “Naïve” Truth-Teller

43:54 The "Age of Choice"

45:31 Revolution & Making Choices

48:21 Americans now vs. during American Revolution

51:17 Why risk a revolution?

52:22 Just One Point

53:38 Thinking about thinking

56:49 Closing & "Yankee Doodle"

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This interview with Dr. Rosenfeld is about the Age of Enlightenment (aka Age of Revolutions) and its impact on the American Revolution.

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