Philosophy
The Enlightenment: an interpretation
Herman Lautensach, Tsung-i Jao, Edmund Husserl, Peter Gay
1966·429 pages
Landmark two-volume history of the Enlightenment, tracing the philosophes’ shift from Christianity toward classical ideals, reason, and modern freedom.
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Landmark two-volume history of the Enlightenment, tracing the philosophes’ shift from Christianity toward classical ideals, reason, and modern freedom.
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Peter Gay will inevitably leave his stamp on our conception of the Enlight- ment for decades to come. The sheer bulk of his writing on the subject alone will ensure that. He began his re-interpretation of the movement in 1959 with Voltaire's Politics: the Poet as Realist, showing the foremost philosophe to have been a much more liberal and practical political thinker than had often been assumed. There followed in 1964 The Party of Humanity, a series of essays in which Gay challenged some of the ...
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Central focus on Christianity, deism, paganism, and secular critique
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