LEADER 03388nam 22006374a 450 001 9910777772503321 005 20221202185143.0 010 $a1-281-72287-1 010 $a9786611722876 010 $a0-300-13368-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133684 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472089 035 $a(EBL)3420193 035 $a(OCoLC)923590599 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147840 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147840 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017160 035 $a(PQKB)10902708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420193 035 $a(DE-B1597)485176 035 $a(OCoLC)952732878 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133684 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420193 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170884 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472089 100 $a20031031d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture$b[electronic resource] /$fLouis Dupri 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-10032-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA definition and a provisional justification -- A different cosmos -- A new sense of selfhood -- Toward a new conception of art -- The moral crisis -- The origin of modern social theories -- The new science of history -- The religious crisis -- The faith of the philosophers -- Spiritual continuity and renewal. 330 $aThe prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It includes rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival.The Enlightenment's critique of tradition was a necessary consequence of the fundamental modern principle that we humans are solely responsible for the course of history. Hence we can accept no belief, no authority, no institutions that are not in some way justified. This foundation, for better or for worse, determined the course of the following centuries. Despite contemporary reactions against it, the Enlightenment continues to shape our own time and still distinguishes Western culture from any other. 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aCivilization, Modern 606 $aPhilosophy and civilization 615 0$aEnlightenment. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 615 0$aPhilosophy and civilization. 676 $a190/.9/033 700 $aDupre?$b Louis K.$f1925-2022.$0541112 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777772503321 996 $aEnlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture$9991355 997 $aUNINA