Enlightenment and Secularism :Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Enlightenment and Secularism :Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
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25 February, 2015
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781498510950 |
| ISBN10 | 1498510957 |
| Number Of Pages | 418 |
| Item Weight | 662 g |
| Product Dimensions | 153 x 232 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | paperback |
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Some recent scholarship on the Enlightenment has placed so much emphasis on differences from country to country, between high and low, and between radical and moderate, that we risk not seeing the forest for the trees. This volume gives all the attention one could want to diversity by featuring careful attention on particular writings by writers from different countries, including critics of the Enlightenment as well as fervent supporters. At the same time, it shows a unity of concern within this diversity by treating a single set of political, economic, religious and social issues revolving around the question of secularism and religion. As a whole, the book gives us a rich account of thought in the Enlightenment. In addition, many of the individual essays are important and original contributions to scholarship on a single thinker or book. -- Christopher Kelly, Boston College
Author's Bio
Christopher Nadon is Associate Professor in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College. He is author of Xenophon’s Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia, and articles on the separation of church and state in the early modern era.