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Title: The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay ISBN: 0-393-31366-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a classic book on the enlightenment!
Comment: I have the desire to have the book translated into Chinese!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most brilliant account of the Enlightenment
Comment: The Enlightenment by Peter Gay (2 volumes: The Rise of Modern Paganism and The Science of Freedom) surely ranks among the most brilliant accounts of eighteenth-century philosophy ever written. It is a sweeping account of the intellectual history of the 18th century, form its origins right into the French and American Revolutions. It traces the struggle of the small clique of 'philosophes' -a dispersed group of intellectual giants such as Voltaire, Hume, Lessing and Beccaria- as they fight against corruption, superstition and ignorance, which has kept Europe slumbering since the demise of the Roman Empire. The book vividly illustrates the ideas of the 'philosophes' and how they wanted to bring their reform programs into practice, and thereby spread the ideals of liberty and the pursuit of knowledge. Peter Gay deftly describes the cultural background of the 'philosophes' and explains how they came to challenge the establishment in order to bringing about these much needed changes so as to give their ideals a chance to prevail. The book has an extensive and well-readable bibliography with many good suggestions. This account of the Enlightenment is among the best ever written in the twentieth century, along with Paul Hazard's European Thought in the 18th century and Ernst Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. I do recommend all to read both volumes of this book.
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Title: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay ISBN: 0393313026 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer, James P. Pettegrove, Fritz C.A. Koelin ISBN: 0691019630 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1968 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment by Roy Porter ISBN: 0393322688 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Enlightenment by Roy Porter ISBN: 0333945050 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 07 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century by Owen Chadwick ISBN: 0521398290 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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