Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, the First Decline and Fall

This major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenges the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and posits instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock presents a historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilization Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.

Author: J. G. a. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/14/2003
Pages: 542
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.17lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.36w x 1.49d
ISBN: 9780521824453

About the Author
Pocock, J. G. a.: - J. G. A. Pocock is one of the world's leading historians of ideas, and is Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.Pocock, J. G. a.: - J. G. A. Pocock is one of the world's leading historians of ideas, and is Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.