Enemies of the Enlightenment

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

Author	Darrin McMahon
Language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United States
Pages	262
ISBN	978-0-19-515893-9

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity is a book about the Counter-Enlightenment, which challenged the ideas of the Enlightenment at the end of the early modern period. It was written by the American historian Darrin McMahon and published by Oxford University Press in 2001. McMahon rejects interpretations of the Counter-Enlightenment as a merely reactive force, instead presenting it as in possession of its own revolutionary ideology that needs be studied on its own merits.^[1][2][3]

References

1. Rosenfeld, Sophia (2003). "Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter‐Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity". The Journal of Modern History. 75 (3): 685. doi:10.1086/380254.
2. Censer, Jack R. (2002). "Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. By Darrin M. McMahon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii plus 262 pp.)". Journal of Social History. 36 (2): 528–530. doi:10.1353/jsh.2003.0008.
3. "Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity". Publishers Weekly. 23 July 2001. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

External links

• Oxford University Press