Whatmore, Richard | THE END OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Boken utforskar de komplexa idéerna och misslyckandena under upplysningstiden, med fokus på dess intellektuella och politiska konsekvenser.

• The End of Enlightenment utforskar upplysningens misslyckande.

• Richard Whatmore analyserar idéer från centrala tänkare.

• Utgiven som pocket, 2025.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9780141997704

Omfång: 496
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-08-07

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'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the pulsing, chaotic era of its genesis and demise' Christopher de Bellaigue

The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.

By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states - and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic.

The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism.

Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today.

The End of Enlightenment av Richard Whatmore hittar du under Västerländsk filosofi från och med 1800 inom Filosofi | Psykologi i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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