Description
| Product ID: | 9781851687091 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Beginner's Guides |
| Title: | The Enlightenment |
| Subtitle: | A Beginner's Guide |
| Authors: | Author: Kieron O'Hara |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Blamed for the disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule. This book traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment. Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (and sometimes, still is). Kieron O''Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke. |
| Imprint Name: | Oneworld Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Oneworld Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-02-01 |
