![]() ![]() ![]() Part 2 looks at Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Diderot's Letter on the Blind, and Candide, as bearing out Peter Gay's depiction of the enlightenment as a "revolt against rationalism" as much as an "age of reason". Part 1 reframes the enlightenment, looking forwards from the early modern context (in light of the scientific revolution, reformation, renaissance, and discovery of the new worlds), rather than backwards, in light of the enlightenment's alleged effects in the short 20th century. Chapter for upcoming collection on Rethinking the Enlightenment, edited by M. ![]()
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