num_pages: 555
description: The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and a more intriguing view of the philosophes, their world and their ideas.
language: English
title: The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
titlecomplete: The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
genres: Paganism, History, 18th Century, Philosophy, Religion, European History, Spirituality, Science, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 405
series: The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: National Book Award
category: History and Biography
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company