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1 online resource (1 audio file (60hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by James Cameron Stewart. |
| Summary |
The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression, gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment.
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Civilization, Modern -- 18th century.
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Stewart, James Cameron.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705239896 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705239897 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13937960 |
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