The Wisdom of the Enlightenment

by Michael K. Kellogg

Enlightenment--Aufkl rung in German, Lumi res in French--is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633887936
• ISBN13: 9781633887930
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"