A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a Pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
Yet why, over three hundred years after.
One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument.
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a Pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness