Enlightenment Shadows
Oxford University Press, $57.95 hb, 191 pp, 9780199669561
Philosophy
Enlightenment shadows
by Janna Thompson •
From the Enlightenment, according to contemporary critics, came a dream about human progress from which we have awakened. The Enlightenment is commonly presented as an intellectual era when philosophers believed that reason would solve all human problems and provide a solid foundation for morality and politics. But surely we now know better.
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