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The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture /

The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dupré, Louis K., 1925-2022
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A definition and a provisional justification
  • A different cosmos
  • A new sense of selfhood
  • Toward a new conception of art
  • The moral crisis
  • The origin of modern social theories
  • The new science of history
  • The religious crisis
  • The faith of the philosophers
  • Spiritual continuity and renewal.