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100			_aWhatmore, Richard
245			_aThe End of Enlightenment _b: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
260			_bAllen Lane _c2023 _aLondon
300			_axxxi,457p. _bcol. ill.
505			_a1. The meaning of Enlightenment 2. David Hume and the end of the world 3. Shelburne, his circle and the end of Britain 4. Catharine Macaulay and the end of liberty 5. Edward Gibbon and the end of the republics 6. Edmund Burke and the end of Europe 7. Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the end of empire 8. Thomas Paine and the end of revolution 9. Mary Wollstonecraft and the end of equality 10. And by confusion stand
520			_aA 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
650			_aWestern Civilization
650			_aModern History
690			_aGeneral
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