The Enlightenment and Modernity

by Robert Wokler

Book Overview

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349403555
• ISBN13: 9781349403554
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"