Counter-Enlightenment: Tradition, Faith, and Culture in Opposition to Modernity

This book explores the intellectual movement known as the Counter-Enlightenment, which arose in opposition to the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason, secularism, and universalism. It examines the key figures and ideas that shaped this critique, from Giambattista Vico and Johann Georg Hamann to Joseph de Maistre and Edmund Burke, and analyzes their defense of tradition, faith, cultural particularism, and the importance of community. The Counter-Enlightenment rejected the Enlightenment's beli...