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The Enlightenment : And Why It Still Matters
Paperback Edition: 1
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 central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of
the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since.
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Pages : 436
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2015-02-19
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, General & World History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Social & Cultural History