num_pages: 288
description: Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.
language: English
title: Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
titlecomplete: Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
genres: France, History, Cultural Studies, Politics, Philosophy, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Oxford University Press