An eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the Enlightenment--the importance of which has been vigorously debated in recent years--was a more complex phenomenon than either its detractors or advocates assume. "Ranging as it does over art, morality, religion, science, philosophy, social theory, and a good deal besides, Dupre's book] is a marvel of scholarly erudition. . . . Formidably well-researched, . . . this] would make an excellent introduction to Enlightenment ideas for the general reader."--Terry Eagleton, Harper's Magazine "This immensely readable book will cause...
An eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the Enlightenment--the importance of which has been vigorously debated in recent years--was a more co...
"Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture" describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period. Louis Dupre is an expert guide to the complex historical and intellectual relation between religion and modern culture.Dupre begins by tracing the weakening of the Christian synthesis. At the end of the Middle Ages intellectual attitudes toward religion began to change. Theology, once the dominant science that had integrated all others, lost its commanding position. After the French...
"Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture" describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture:...
This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupre's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupre philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a violent protest against it. Following an introduction on the historical origins of the Romantic Movement, Dupre examines the principal Romantic...
This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupre's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable er...
