The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters

The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since.

• | By (Author): Anthony (Professor Of Political Science And History, Professor Of Political Science And History, University Of California, Los Angeles) Pagden
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 05, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 466 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0198700881
• | ISBN-13: 9780198700883