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The Enlightenment

The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

Ritchie Robertson

This history of the Enlightenment reframes the period as a pursuit of practical ways to achieve happiness, rather than just rationale and reason. The author explains how the Enlightenment has been misunderstood and misrepresented by its conservative enemies, and provides a comprehensive account of the period from 1680 to 1790. Along with philosophical and theological debates, the book also explores literature, music, and visual arts as means of conveying enlightenment ideas. The author argues that the Enlightenment was an attempt to increase human happiness and shows how it was a formative period of European and world history.
Publish Date
2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2020
Goodreads Rating
4.25
ISBN
9780062410658
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-12-17T17:19:26.000Z
My review for @TheTimesBooks of a book I hugely admired & enjoyed, & learned a lot from: Ritchie Robertson's The #Enlightenment. (Cricket fans, be warned: do not let skimming this tweet fool you into thinking that the book is by a West Indies Test great.)      source