Enlightenment and Modernity

Geras, N.; Wokler, Robert

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-12-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333716502

DOI: 10.1057/9780333983300

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232