The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition
By Vincenzo Ferrone.
Description
In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was―and why it is still relevant today. Ferrone explains why the Enlightenment was a profound and wide-ranging cultural revolut...
ISBN(s)
0691161453, 9780691161457
