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In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversia
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-03-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Historians use the term "enlightenment" as both a noun and an adjective. Used as a noun, the term designates a period of exceptionally consistent cultural creat
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Authors: Christopher Olaf Blum
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For the Anglo-American world, Edmund Burke is the touchstone of counter-revolutionary thought, but in this volume, Christopher Olaf Blum shows that in attemptin
The Enlightenment and the Book
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Placing the Enlightenment
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Authors: Charles W. J. Withers
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The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of t