The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

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A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian, The End of Enlightenment, offers a radical re-evaluation of one of the most important moments in human history. Tracing around the world the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists, historian Richard Whatmore argues that, for figures as diverse as David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, the Enlightenment was a profound failure. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, fanaticism with toleration, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent empire.

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