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So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell (https://www.davidavrombell.com/) , it was an intellectual movement roughly spanning the early 18th century through to the French Revolution. In his Spring 2025 Liberties Quarterly piece | So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell (https://www.davidavrombell.com/) , it was an intellectual movement roughly spanning the early 18th century through to the French Revolution. In his Spring 2025 Liberties Quarterly piece | ||
=====THE ENLIGHTENMENT===== | |||
[https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/enlightenment by The Enlightenment] | |||
To refer to The Enlightenment, complained the eminent historian of the eighteenth century, J. G. A. Pocock, was to presume inaccurately that one could refer to "a single unitary process, displaying a uniform set of characteristics. | |||
