The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay\'s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism .
His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment\'s critical method and its humane and libertarian vision..
In the present book, he describes the philosophes\' program and their views of society.
The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay\'s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism