Lecture 05: The Encyclopedie and the Enlightenment

In lecture 05 we look at some specifics regarding the Enlightenment, particularly the life of Voltaire and the way in which the famous French Encyclopedie reflected the positive and negative sides of the Enlightenment. Did you know that Forest Gump was based on the story of Candide? Or that Voltaire was the first to mobilize public opinion behind a cause that shook a government? How did the Encyclopedists manage to spread revolutionary ideas in a country saddled with an all powerful Church and an ancien regime? This vodcast provides insight into these questions.

I am disabling the link for this podcast because it was pasword-protected and not easily accessible via iTunes. In the future all the lectures will be available without the requirement of a password, so this one will have to remain inaccessible.