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O'hara, Kieron

 
9781851687091: The Enlightenment: A Beginner's Guide
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ISBN 10 : 1851687092 ISBN 13 : 9781851687091
Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Oneworld Publications
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1851687092
ISBN 13 
9781851687091
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
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