{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-dan-edelstein-9780226184470","title":"The Enlightenment: A Genealogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of \"the Enlightenment\" first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms--such as \u003ci\u003el'esprit philosophique\u003c\/i\u003e--to describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But Edelstein argues that it was within the French Academies, and in the context of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, that the key definition, concepts, and historical narratives of the Enlightenment were crafted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA necessary corrective to many of our contemporary ideas about the Enlightenment, Edelstein's book turns conventional thinking about the period on its head. Concise, clear, and contrarian, \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed by all teachers and students of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Edelstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226184471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226184470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011","brand":"Dan Edelstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086395551999,"sku":"9780226184470","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d7afafc-56a9-4eac-a771-de59221e14ad.jpg?v=1769094435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-enlightenment-dan-edelstein-9780226184470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}