The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis by Richard Whatmore
English | December 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241523427 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 7.80 MB
The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.