The End of Enlightenment
- Author Richard Whatmore
- Narrator Ben Onwukwe
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 16 hours and 11 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Colonialism and imperialism, Economic history, European history, History, History of ideas, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Society and Social Sciences, Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian
The End of Enlightenment offers a radical re-evaluation of one of the most important moments in human history. Tracing around the world the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists, historian Richard Whatmore argues that, for figures as diverse as David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, the Enlightenment was a profound failure. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, fanaticism with toleration, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent empire.
Returning us to the tumultuous events and ideas of the eighteenth century, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, The End of Enlightenment is a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured.
©2023 Richard Whatmore (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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