The Idea of Enlightenment: A Postmortem Study

by Robert Bartlett and Robert C. Bartlett

In The Idea of Enlightenment, Robert Bartlett explores the roots of the contemporary dissatisfaction with the modern Enlightenment, the momentous political-philosophical project that sought to liberate politics from religious control. What is unsatisfactory about our post-Enlightenment condition, argues the author, is that the heralded "death of God" has been rapidly followed by the death of reason and, with it, the Enlightenment's hope that politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612916
• ISBN13: 9781442612914
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher