Enlightenolatry from Peter Gay to Steven Pinker: Mass Marketing Enlightenment and the Thick Eighteenth Century.
The article focuses on the emergence of 18th-century studies as a field of inquiry in the U.S. during the 1960s, particularly with a focus on the Enlightenment. It discusses the role of the Cold War context and the rise of scholars like Peter Gay in shaping the perception of the Enlightenment as a s...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 62; no. 3/4; pp. 355 - 384 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Fall/Winter2021
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the emergence of 18th-century studies as a field of inquiry in the U.S. during the 1960s, particularly with a focus on the Enlightenment. It discusses the role of the Cold War context and the rise of scholars like Peter Gay in shaping the perception of the Enlightenment as a source of modern democratic capitalist societies. It highlights the involvement of faculty members like Orest Ranum in the student protests at Columbia University in 1968. |
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