The Enlightenment - Brossura

Porter, Roy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0333454146 ISBN 13: 9780333454145

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Riassunto

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, 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 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

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Book by Porter Roy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0333454146
• ISBN 13: 9780333454145
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 106