Enemies of the Enlightenment

The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

Nonfiction, History, France, European General
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Author: Darrin M. McMahon ISBN: 9780199881291
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: August 23, 2001
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Darrin M. McMahon
ISBN: 9780199881291
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: August 23, 2001
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.

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Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.

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