Enlightenment and modernity
Auteur :
Wokler, Robert
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780333716502
Date de publication :
8 déc. 1999
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.