Readership: Readers with an interest in the European Enlightenment; intellectual and cultural historians; scholars and students of philosophy.

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"Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics,

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the poli