The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture:

"The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent schola...

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Main Author: Dupré, Louis 1925-2022 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2004
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Summary:"The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It included rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival. The forces of the so-called anti-Enlightenment form an essential part of the Enlightenment itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIV, 397 S.
ISBN:0300113463
0300100329

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