The Enlightenment And Why It Still Matters |
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| Author:
| Pagden, Anthony |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-163670-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $108.00 |
Book Description:
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The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since.
The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since.