Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

by Christopher Nadon (Editor), Allan Arkush (Contributor), Jeremy D. Bailey (Contributor)

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text from the Enlightenment, borrowing or secularizing the format of a sermon on a text, and are designed to be of particular use to those teaching and studying the history of the Enlightenment within a liberal arts curriculum.

Genres: Philosophy

420 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[James Dempsey · Rating 2 out of 5]

The American normalisation of the interdisciplinary approach is, at bottom, not a good thing for the humanities. There is something about American (humanities, particularly essays, particularly these essays) academia which I cower from. I cannot express what it is. Why is it so different and unlikeable. It’s like a tendency toward complication.