The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism

by Peter Gay

Overview

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.

In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393313024
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/1995
Series:	Enlightenment an Interpretation
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	590
Sales rank:	675,666
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

Editorial Reviews

"Extraordinary and brilliant."

Journal of Modern History - R. R. Palmer

Extraordinary and brilliant.--R. R. Palmer "Journal of Modern History"

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