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ENEMIES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
THE FRENCH COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE MAKING OF MODERNITY |
| By: |
Darrin M. McMahon |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£28.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195158938 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195158939 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
18 July, 2002 |
| Pages: |
276 |
| Description: |
This book examines the Enlightenment from the perspective of its contemporary opponents. Born in France but spread throughout the world, the Counter-Enlightenment was a major cultural force at the intersection of the development of modern politics and thought about religion, gender, the French Revolution, and the course of history. |
| Synopsis: |
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-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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