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• THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL*

THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL*

September 22, 2022The late German Amerin Historian Peter Gay’s 1966 edn of the book Age of Enlightenment is a history of the Age of Enlightenment Europe.

For Gay, the era of the Age of Enlightenment Europe lasted om 1687, when the Physicist Isaac Newton published his Mathematil Prcipl of Natural Philosophy, until the French Revolutn the late 18th Century. Gay’s book is probably dated, but is still worth readg if one is terted the historgraphy of the history of the Age of Enlightenment Europe.