American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason by Caroline Winterer

American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Caroline Winterer

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of mo...

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