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McMahon, Darrin M.,

Enemies of the Enlightenment : the French Counter-Enlightenment and the making of modernity / Darrin M. McMahon. - 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages): illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

Includes index. Previously issued in print: 2001.

This text examines the Enlightenment from the perspective of its contemporary opponents. It tells how the Counter-Enlightenment was a cultural force at the intersection of the development of modern politics and thought about religion, gender, and history.

ISBN: 9780197712788 No price

Standard No.: 10.1093/oso/9780195136852.001.0001 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Enlightenment--France.
Philosophy, French--18th century.
Right and left (Political science)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--History--1789-.

Dewey Class. No.: 944.04