ENGLISH

The Enlightenment

By Roy Porter

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1996
ISBN
0333454146, 9780333454145
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9323065 bytes)
Series
Studies in European History
Edition
1st
Pages
106\106
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-03-02 22:19:37

Description

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ancien regime and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of this many-faceted movement.

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