Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity by Darrin M. McMahon (Repost)
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity by Darrin M. McMahon
English | July 18, 2002 | ISBN: 0195158938 | 288 Pages | PDF | 17,4 MB
English | July 18, 2002 | ISBN: 0195158938 | 288 Pages | PDF | 17,4 MB
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 we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.