The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment by Henry Steele Commager

The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment

Henry Steele Commager

381 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Beginning with a survey of the origins and growth of 18th century rationalism, the author explains how the realization of the great philosophers' ideals in Europe was inevitably frustrated by the counterweight of tradition and privilege. He points...

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