01 Enlightenment An Interpretation: The Rise Of Modern Paganism

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 M05 2 - 592 páginas
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.

In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments.

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The Enlightenment in Its World
3
THE APPEAL TO ANTIQUITY
29
A Congenial Sense and Spirit
39
From Identification
59
The First Enlightenment
72
The Climate of Criticism
127
The Hospitable Pantheon
160
The Primacy of Moral Realism
178
Beyond the Holy Circle
358
The Enlightenment in Its World
423
The Useful and Beloved Past
451
The First Enlightenment
464
The Climate of Criticism
482
The Retreat from Reason
489
The Era of Pagan Christianity
505
In Dubious Battle
535

THE TENSION WITH CHRISTIANITY
205
The Era of Pagan Christianity
256
In Dubious Battle
322
Beyond the Holy Circle
547
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED
553
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Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

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