The Enlightenment a genealogy.

• Main Author: Edelstein, Dan
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010; The University of Chicago Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 18th century; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of; Culture; Enlightenment; Enlightenment > France; enlightenment, philosophy, science, art, literature, history, perspective, quarrel of the ancients and moderns, french academies, france, esprit philosophique, dutch republic, england, humanism, orient, revolution, resistance, politics, rights, liberty, freedom, radical, politeness, worldliness, public instruction, censorship, universities, nonfiction; Europe; France; France > Intellectual life > 18th century; Genealogy; HISTORY; HISTORY / General; Intellectual life; Intellectuals; Philosophy; Philosophy > Europe > History > 18th century; Philosophy > France > History > 18th century; Social change; France; Europe; enlightenment, philosophy, science, art, literature, history, perspective, quarrel of the ancients and moderns, french academies, france, esprit philosophique, dutch republic, england, humanism, orient, revolution, resistance, politics, rights, liberty, freedom, radical, politeness, worldliness, public instruction, censorship, universities, nonfiction

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of “the Enlightenment” first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that tra...