In this classic work of tellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provis both a gent synthis and a peratg analysis of one of history's greatt tellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Argug that there was a mon foundatn beneath the diverse strands of thought of this perd, he shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ias of the precedg centuri even while radilly transformg them to f the morn world. In Cassirer's view, the Enlightenment liberated philosophy om the realm of pure thought and rtored to s te place as an active and creative force through which knowledge of the world is achieved. In a new foreword, Peter Gay nsirs The Philosophy of the Enlightenment the ntext which was wrten--Germany 1932, on the precipice of the Nazi seizure of power and one of the greatt asslts on the ials of the Enlightenment. He also argu that Cassirer's work remas a trenchant fense agast enemi of the Enlightenment the twenty-first century.
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THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL*
Arthur M. Wilson, Peter Gay's "The Enlightenment: An Interpretatn", Dirot Studi, Vol. 10 (1968), pp. 303-312 * peter gay enlightenment review *
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.
THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL* - Volume 55 Issue 3 * peter gay enlightenment review *
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.