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THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL* - Volume 55 Issue 3

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

Ever sce this view – which we might scribe as the mornizatn this – was first formulated by Peter Gay, has been repeatedly cricized as misguid: a myth.

Ined, Gay's most important and fluential succsors – historians such as Robert Darnton and Roy Porter – all end up fendg the ia that the Enlightenment was a major force the creatn of morn mocratic valu and stutns. 7 On Peter Gay's life and reer, see Robert L. Mile, ‘Peter Gay.

Dietle and Mile remark that ‘Gay first anized his ias about the Enlightenment the 1940s and 1950s; agast the backdrop of twentieth-century challeng to eedom by fascism and munism, the Wtern liberal-ratnalist tradn, he believed, very much served affirmatn.

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8 In one of his earlit scholarly papers, Gay intified ‘the so-lled “New Conservativ” like John H.

In his 1964 book, The party of humany: says the French Enlightenment (New York, NY, 1964), Gay went on to cricize Talmon repeatedly while praisg Cobban's In search of humany.

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