Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.


Author: Darrin M. McMahon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/18/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.16w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780195158939

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