Format:
XIV, 397 S.
ISBN:
0-300-11346-3
,
0-300-10032-9
Content:
"The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It included rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival. The forces of the so-called anti-Enlightenment form an essential part of the Enlightenment itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Aufklärung
;
Philosophie
;
Philosophie
Author information:
Dupré, Louis, 1925-
