Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

Critics Have Long Treated The Most Important Intellectual Movement Of Modern History--the Enlightenment--as If It Took Shape In The Absence Of Opposition. In This Groundbreaking New Study, Darrin Mcmahon Demonstrates That, On The Contrary, Contemporary Resistance To The Enlightenment Was A Major Cultural Force, Shaping And Defining The Enlightenment Itself From The Moment Of Inception, While Giving Rise To An Entirely New Ideological Phenomenon-what We Have Come To Think Of As The Right. Mcmahon Skillfully Examines The Counter-enlightenment, Showing That It Was An Extensive, International, And Thoroughly Modern Affair.