The Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780140137453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 304 str.

Norman Hampson

Opis

Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated.