The End of Enlightenment (Record no. 60456)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780241523421 (HB)
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Universal Decimal Classification number 94(54)
Item number WHA
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Personal name Whatmore, Richard
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The End of Enlightenment
Sub Title : Empire, Commerce, Crisis
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher Allen Lane
Year of publication 2023
Place of publication London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxxi,457p.
Other physical details col. ill.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. The meaning of Enlightenment <br/>2. David Hume and the end of the world <br/>3. Shelburne, his circle and the end of Britain <br/>4. Catharine Macaulay and the end of liberty <br/>5. Edward Gibbon and the end of the republics <br/>6. Edmund Burke and the end of Europe <br/>7. Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the end of empire <br/>8. Thomas Paine and the end of revolution <br/>9. Mary Wollstonecraft and the end of equality <br/>10. And by confusion stand
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Summary, etc A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure. By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states - and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic. The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism. Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today
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Topical Term Western Civilization
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Topical Term Modern History
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