Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Englightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.
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Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Englightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.
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Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780198031307 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 02/29/2000 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 4 MB |
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