The History Hour

The Western Enlightenment and Age of Reason

The final episode of this winter/spring season attempts to bring some close to the Western Enlightenment as a period when the mind of the modern West was recast in a shape quite unlike the medieval mind or any other consciousness in any other culture. Politics is the major focus and Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Montesquieu are the main minds under study. The American Revolution and the French are proof-texts in our history of a new type of mind on the world scene.

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