The Concept of the Enlightenment.
This article reviews J. C. D. Clark’s book *The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History*, which challenges the conventional understanding of the Enlightenment as a coherent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century intellectual movement. Clark argues that the term "Enlightenment" was not used contemporaneo...
| Publicado en: | Modern Age Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 67 - 74 |
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