Enemies of the Enlightenment
The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2002
277 pages
978-0-19-534793-7 (ISBN)
Description
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, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Century Blinded by Light
- Chapter 2 The Revolution as the Realization of Philosophy
- Chapter 3 The Terror and the International Construction of the Enlightenment
- Chapter 4 Concrete Literary Politics during the Reign of Napoleon
- Chapter 5 The Future of the Past: The Restoration Struggle against the Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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