The Enlightenment

Zusatztext "Lively and erudite. This is an excellent and, for its length remarkably comprehensive, starting place for approaching the Enlightenment." Informationen zum Autor Author Kieron O'Hara is Senior Research Fellow in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (IAM), in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He is currently involved in the Office of Science and Technology's Cybertrust and Crime Prevention initiative. He is the author of two books in popular science and sociology: Plato and the Internet, and Trust: From Socrates to Spin. He also co-wrote the script for best-selling computer game Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. Klappentext Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (and sometimes, still is). Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke. Zusammenfassung Blamed for the disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule. This book traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Kieron Hara, O&apos, Kieron O'Hara
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.01.2010
• EAN: 9781851687091
• ISBN: 978-1-85168-709-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Beginner's Guide; Beginner's Guides; Beginner's Guide; Beginner's Guides; Beginner's Guide; Beginner's Guides (Oneworld)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, HISTORY / Europe / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, C 1700 To C 1800