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

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
ISBN-10
0195158938
ISBN-13
9780195158939
Category
History
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Darrin M. McMahon

Description

"Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Darrin M. McMahon shows that well before the French Revolution, enemies of the Enlightenment were warning that the secular thrust of modern philosophy would give way to horrors of an unprecedented kind. Greeting 1789, in turn, as the realization of their worst fears, they fought the Revolution from its onset, profoundly affecting its subsequent course. The radicalization - and violence - of the Revolution was as much the product of militant resistance as any inherent logic."--BOOK JACKET.

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