Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment

by Ralph Lerner

Book Overview

In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment--the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be explained and defended. Lerner first investigates how the makers of revolution sought to improve their public's aspirations and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857424
• ISBN13: 9780807857427
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"