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The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Brewer, Daniel
Brewer

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ISBN10: 0521175291
ISBN13: 9780521175296
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 3 2011
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Over the last two hundred years the theories and ideals of the Enlightenment have come to be viewed as the foundation of modern Western political and intellectual culture. Particularly in France they have played a fundamental role in the development of national identity. In a series of richly contextualised readings Daniel Brewer examines the cultural construction of the Enlightenment in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. He examines a range of important Enlightenment texts, explores the ways in which they defined their modernising project, and analyses the cultural and political uses to which they have been put by scholars, writers and intellectuals. This book presents a significant advance in the field of Enlightenment studies, in an important and timely reassessment of the heritage and continued relevance of Enlightenment ideals.

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