Detalls del llibre
This title offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the "intellectual solvent" of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.
Llegir més - Autor/a BARNETT/KLASSEN
- ISBN13 9780719067419
- ISBN10 0719067413
- Pàgines 244
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 07/05/2026
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity (Alemany, Francès)
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- Manchester University Press (2026)
- 9780719067419



