The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

by Ritchie Robertson

Book Overview

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.

One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062410652
• ISBN13: 9780062410658
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 1008 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"