Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity by Darrin M. McMahon

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

Darrin M. McMahon

288 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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, contemp...

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