Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism" and "unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition." In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/1971
ISBN: 9780393006070
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d