- Title:
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The Enlightenment (MP3)
- Series:
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Bolinda Beginner Guides
- Written by:
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Kieron O'Hara
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 46 minutes
- MP3 size:
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407 MB
- Published:
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March 01 2012
- Available Date:
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March 28 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743104811
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; History; Philosophy
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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“O'Hara provides readers with an introduction to the Enlightenment that is thorough without ever being forbidding and shows a keen appreciation of the dilemmas and controversies that surround the enlightened inheritance.”
Dan Hind, author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It
Introducing one of the most influential eras of modern history.
The Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive, being blamed for bloody disasters – Auschwitz, the gulags, Islamic terrorism – as well as being heralded as the harbinger of reason and equality. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (or whether it still is).
Kieron O’Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, ideology, culture, and social life of the Enlightenment – not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke.
“This is an engaging and highly readable introduction to one of the most important intellectual developments in the history of Western culture.”
Matthew Humphrey, Reader in Political Philosophy, University of Nottingham
“Lively and erudite. This is an excellent, and for its length remarkably comprehensive, starting place for approaching the Enlightenment.”
Penny Fielding, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh