Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

by Darrin M. McMahon

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195158938

ISBN13:9780195158939

Release Date:July 2002

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

17th Century Europe France History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Philosophy

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