
The enlightenment : and why it still matters
Anthony Pagden
Bok · Engelsk · 2013
Utgitt | Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013
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Omfang | 436, XIV
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Opplysninger | This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since. Cosmopolitanism is an ancient creed; but in its modern form it was a creature of the Enlightenment attempt to create a new 'science of man', based upon a vision of hu
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ISBN | 978-0-19-966093-3
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