Essential Enlightenment, The (Essential Scholars)

The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth century-the ideas we often now refer to as “classical liberalism”-emerged out of major debates and developments from the late 1600s to the late 1700s, part of the broad European intellectual movement of that era that came to be known as “the Enlightenment.”

This volume shows how the Enlightenment and the development of liberal ideas were woven together by looking at three defining figures of the era...