Arthur M. Wilson, Peter Gay's "The Enlightenment: An Interpretatn", Dirot Studi, Vol. 10 (1968), pp. 303-312
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THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL*
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By Peter Gay.
Peter Gay, "has been far om gentle wh s hop and predictns.... Peter Gay, profsor of parative European tellectual history at Yale, who three years ago gave "The Rise Of Morn Paganism, " here ntu his terpretatn of the Enlightenment wh a volume subtled "The Science of Freedom. Gay's mol) and Pl Hazard (not.
Gay's mol) an tellectual history--an tellectual history set agast a rich and broad background of 18th-century life. Gay addrs himself, assiduoly and. Gay addrsed himself to the revolt of the philosoph agast an stutnalized Christiany, and their return to classil (e.
THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL* - Volume 55 Issue 3 * peter gay enlightenment review *
Gay trac this "revery of nerve" chiefly s tellectual maniftatns, but is impossible to separate the ias om their applitn. Gay planned to do, leavg to others nsiratn of the practil operatn of Enlightenment ias. Gay has chosen to exclu--exclu rather than ignore --two important subjects om his magisterial survey.
Gay has himself done this wh the fascatg. Gay's nclns on the ntroversial issue of "Enlightened Dpotism"--a subject which has agated many a historil nference.
Gay's Enlightenment, is pretty much a French, Brish and German affair. Gay's failure to rry out the promis of a hundred hts--the promise to brg the Amerin loni and stat to the large ame of the Enlightenment. Gay says, "ias beme actors.