The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
The Enlightenment’s social and political program
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The Enlightenment’s social and political program
In this second volume of Peter Gay’s account of the Enlightenment, attention turns to the philosophes’ program and their views of society. The book presents the movement through its critical method and its vision of humaneness and liberty, framing those ideas as central to its intellectual project. Its emphasis is on how Enlightenment thinkers approached social life and the principles they sought to advance, making it a historical interpretation of the period’s ideas rather than a general survey of the eighteenth century.
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- Readers studying eighteenth-century intellectual history and the Enlightenment.
- Readers interested in the philosophes’ social thought and ideas about liberty.
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