Enemies of the Enlightenment
The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Nonfiction, History, France, European General
| Author: | Darrin M. McMahon | ISBN: | 9780199881291 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | August 23, 2001 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Darrin M. McMahon |
| ISBN: | 9780199881291 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | August 23, 2001 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
