The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments - Gertrude Himmelfarb

Descriere The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments - Gertrude Himmelfarb

\n \nIn an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America.\n \n \n \nContrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic-humane, compassionate, and realistic-that still resonates strongly today, in America perhaps even more than in Europe.\n \n \n \nThe Roads to Modernity is a remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of ideas.\n

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