The Enlightenment : and why it still matters /
An assessment of the Enlightenment period as an influential intellectual movement reveals how it laid the foundation of today's government, philosophy, science and society, noting the pivotal contributions of scholars ranging from Hume and Diderot to Voltaire and Rousseau.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Random House, [2013] ©2013. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is Enlightenment?
- All coherence gone
- Bringing pity back in
- The fatherless world
- The science of man
- Discovering man in nature
- The defense of civilization
- The great society of mankind
- The vast commonwealth of nature
- Enlightenment and its enemies.