Product details
ISBN
9780393313024
Published
1995-07-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
593 gr
Height
208 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
590
Author
Biographical note
Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time."Extraordinary and brilliant."
- R. R. Palmer - Journal of Modern History,
In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments.
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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern
age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came
to hold sway over the Western world.
Product details
ISBN
9780393313024
Published
1995-07-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
593 gr
Height
208 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
590
Author