Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment?
@article{Israel2006EnlightenmentWE, title={Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment?}, author={Jonathan I. Israel}, journal={Journal of the History of Ideas}, year={2006}, volume={67}, pages={523 - 545} }
Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment? Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, 4 vols., editor in chief Alan Charles Kors; eds. Roger L. Emerson, Lynn Hunt, Anthony J. La Vopa, Jacques Le Brun, Jeremy D. Popkin, C. Bradley Thomson, Ruth Whelan, and Gordon S. Wood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).On the surface it might well seem that during the last fifteen or twenty years the Enlightenment understood as a new way of thinking about reality and society has receded more and more from its former…
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