The Enlightenment (Second Edition )

副标题: Studies in European History

ISBN: 9780333945056

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2007-03-07

页数: 90

定价: $29.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance, and superstition, it formulated the ideals of thought, religion, and expression, the value of science, and 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, now in a fully updated second edition, 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.

作者简介

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

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