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[https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-History-Idea-Updated/dp/0691161453 by Vincenzo Ferrone 6/4/15 amazon] | [https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-History-Idea-Updated/dp/0691161453 by Vincenzo Ferrone 6/4/15 amazon] | ||
In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was―and why it is still relevant today. | In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was―and why it is still relevant today. | ||
=====What Was ‘The Enlightenment’?===== | |||
[https://www.historyhit.com/what-was-the-enlightenment/ by Luke Tomes 14/1/21 HISTORYHIT] | |||
In simple terms, the Enlightenment was a period in history, occuring roughly between the late-16th and 18th century, that completely transformed western culture. People began to reconsider and question the long-established monarchies, religious institutions, social systems and hierachies that had dictated their way of life for so long. | |||
