Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain

by Michael McKeon

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon's new book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684484723
• ISBN13: 9781684484720
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages