The Enlightenment

A Beginner's Guide

By: Kieron OHara

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Paperback | 1 February 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (and sometimes, still is). Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke.

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"Lively and erudite. This is an excellent and, for its length remarkably comprehensive, starting place for approaching the Enlightenment."--Penny Fielding - Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh
"O'Hara provides readers with an introduction to the Enlightenment that is thorough without ever being forbidding and shows a keen appreciation of the dilemmas and controversies that surround the enlightened inheritance."--Dan Hind - author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim
"This is an engaging and highly readable introduction to one of the most important intellectual developments in the history of western culture."--Matthew Humphrey - Reader in Political Philosophy, University of Nottingham

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