The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

by Ritchie Robertson

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A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.

One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0062410652

ISBN13:9780062410658

Release Date:February 2021

Publisher:Harper

Length:1008 Pages

Weight:2.65 lbs.

Dimensions:2.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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