The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition

Ferrone, Vincenzo

ISBN 10: 0691161453 / ISBN 13: 9780691161457

Published by Princeton University Press (edition Updated), 2015

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With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (edition Updated)
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691161453
• ISBN 13: 9780691161457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Updated.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was--and why it is still relevant today. Ferrone explains why the Enlightenment was a profound and wide-ranging cultural revolution that reshaped Western identity, reformed politics through the invention of human rights, and redefined knowledge by creating a critical culture. These new ways of thinking gave birth to new values that spread throughout society and changed how everyday life was lived and understood. Featuring an illuminating afterword describing how his argument challenges the work of Anglophone interpreters including Jonathan Israel, The Enlightenment provides a fascinating reevaluation of the true nature and legacy of one of the most important and contested periods in Western history. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS--Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.

About the Author

Vincenzo Ferrone is professor of modern history at the University of Turin. He has been a visiting scholar at the College de France and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.