Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

Intellectual and Cultural Life: The Challenge of the Enlightenment (1x3)

Date de diffusion: Mar 22, 1998

What were the main ideas of the late 18th-century Enlightenment? Who were its leading figures? How did this movement of thought challenge Europe's old order? Also examined is the basis of the Enlightenment in the Atlantic societies of Britain and France.