Enemies of the Enlightment

by Darrin M. McMahon

"Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history - the Enlightenment - as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of its inception and giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon - what we have come to think of as the "Right." Born in France, but spread throughout Europe and the New World in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the...

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