The eighteenth-century Englightenment 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. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more so...
The eighteenth-century Englightenment 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. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and a more intriguing view of the philosophes, their world and their ideas.
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His other books include his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time and his five-volume The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud.
Peter Gay has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the National Book Awa...
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His other books include his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time and his five-volume The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud.
Peter Gay has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the National Book Award in the category of History and Biography for The Enlightenment: An Interpretation:Vol. I, The Rise of Modern Paganism (1966); the first Amsterdam Prize for Historical Science from The Hague, 1990; and the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1992.
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0 有用 已注销 2017-08-06 18:40:37
能把历史研究做成这样，作者个人经历也算很重要
0 有用 hotmark 2015-04-24 18:49:48
18世纪的启蒙运动标志着现代的开端，牛顿在力学和光学领域的突破性成就不仅成为启蒙运动的主要思想源泉，而且也提供了启蒙运动的一个主要隐喻：光明。启蒙一词在法文和英文里都源于“光”，光或光明代表开明、自由，最重要的是批判思维，与之相对的黑暗则是愚昧、守旧、专制。