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The Enlightenment and its shadows

Critical of previous political commentators, "The Enlightenment" reassesses the period and the movement, as well as analyzing subsequent responses to it and outlining its importance to contemporary issues .
Print Book, English, 1990
Routledge, London, 1990
viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415042314, 0415042313
20420626
The spontaneous hand of nature : savagery, colonialism, and the Enlightenment / Peter Hulme
Candide and native America / Gordon Brotherston
Music in the Enlightenment / Joe Allard
Difficult difference : Rousseau's fictions of identity / Jay Bernstein
Mercier's Enlightenment utopia : progress and social ideals / Simon Collier
Adam Ferguson and the enterprise culture / Ted Benton
Imagining the Republic : the sign and sexual politics in France / Margaret Iversen
Reflections on Burke's Reflections, 1790-1990 / David Musselwhite
Human rights and the corruption of governments, 1789-1989 / Michael Freeman
Enlightenment as autonomy : Kant's vindication of reason / Onora O'Neill
The authoritarian response / Ludmilla Jordanova