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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lyons, Jonathan.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lyons, Jonathan.       by title:      The Society for Usef...         MARC Display

The Society for Useful Knowledge : how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America / Jonathan Lyons. by Lyons, Jonathan. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 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. ISBN:  9781608195534 (hardcover) : 1608195538 (hardcover) Description:  xiv, 220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Edition:  First U.S. edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 epochal discoveries. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now behind them, Franklin announced in 1743, it was high time that the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. Franklin and a network of kindred American innovators plunged into the task of creating and sharing "useful knowledge." They started a raft of clubs, journals, and scholarly societies, many still thriving today, to harness man's intellectual and creative powers for the common good. And as these New World thinkers began to make their own discoveries about the natural world, new conceptions of the political order were not far behind.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 Ly Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.3 Ly Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 Lyons Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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