The Enlightenment, and why it still matters by Anthony Pagden

The Enlightenment, and why it still matters

Anthony Pagden

436 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
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This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a c...

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