Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason

by Charles W.J. Withers

The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. "Placing the Enlightenment" contends that the Age of Reason...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226904059
• ISBN13: 9780226904054
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"