Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

by Darrin M. McMahon

Book Overview

Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195136853
• ISBN13: 9780195136852
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"