Article: Which enlightenment?(The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments)(Book Review)

Article: Common sense.(Books)(The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, ...
Commonweal;  January 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Modernity The British, French, and American Enlightenments Gertrude Himmelfarb Alfred A ... benevolence would prevail." The British Enlightenment was a common-sense sort of affair ... condemn the British monarch, not the British Enlightenment. In, for instance, The Federalist ...

Article: The poverty of theory.(The Roads to Modernity: The British, ...
The Nation;  September 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... TO MODERNITY: The British, French, and American Enlightenments. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf. 284 pp ... audience. Like him, Himmelfarb contends that British Enlightenment actors were different from their counterparts ...

Article: The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American ...
Freeman;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf * 2004 * 304 pages * $25.00 hardcover In 1945, Austrian economist F. A. Hayek delivered a lecture ...

Article: MATRIX OF MODERNITY.(British Enlightenment)
History Today;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...In his recent Royal Historical Society Gresham Lecture, Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the creation of the modern world. THIS MILLENNIUM YEAR led historians to address moments in the past which represent ...

Article: Philosophical Dialogue in the British ...
The Modern Language Review;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2 (1996). Ed. by KEVIN L. COPE. New York: AMS Press. 1996. xv + 366 pp. $62.50. The ambitious scope of this annual, reflected in the open arms of its title, determines the character of this volume. It is full of 'ideas' and

Article: Enlightened by the social virtues.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times;  September 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... British, French, and American Enlightenments," serves as a welcome ... characteristic of the British Enlightenment was its deep concern ... Himmelfarb notes that the British Enlightenment flourished "within ... Himmelfarb traces the British Enlightenment's emphasis on the ...

Article: Neocons and Philosophes
The Washington Post;  September 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... British, French, and American Enlightenments By Gertrude Himmelfarb ... essential idea: The British Enlightenment is consequently associated ... associated with the British Enlightenment: the radical skepticism ... British and making the British Enlightenment more inclusive." ...