Title:
The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupri.
Author:
Dupré, Louis K., 1925-
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Call Number:
B802 .D86 2004
Abstract:
"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."--Jacket.
Electronic Access:
Available to Stanford-affiliated users at:Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003023865.html
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f1u2-aa
ISBN:
9780300100327
9780300113464
Physical Description:
xiv, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A definition and a provisional justification -- A different cosmos -- A new sense of selfhood -- Toward a new conception of art -- The moral crisis -- The origin of modern social theories -- The new science of history -- The religious crisis -- The faith of the philosophers -- Spiritual continuity and renewal.
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