Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton

The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity's many ills, such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, and totalitarianism, and those who see it as having forged an age of democracy, human rights, and freedom. The essays collected by Charles Walton in Into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050721
• ISBN13: 9780271050720
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"