End of Enlightenment

''A brilliant and revelatory book about the history of ideas'' David Runciman

''Fascinating and important'' Ruth Scurr

The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, t...