The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture
By: Louis Dupri.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Enlightenment; Civilization, Modern; Philosophy and civilization
Description: "The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It included rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival. The forces of the so-called anti-Enlightenment form an essential part of the Enlightenment itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A definition and a provisional justification; title: A different cosmos; title: A new sense of selfhood; title: Toward a new conception of art; title: The moral crisis; title: The origin of modern social theories; title: The new science of history; title: The religious crisis; title: The faith of the philosophers; title: Spiritual continuity and renewal.