The author of this book speaks out again in regard to the Enlightenment. His inspiration comes not only from new observations occasioned by own studies, but also from the recently read material as well as opinions and appraisals of the era articulated lately at academic conferences.

Autorentext

Zbigniew Drozdowicz is a philosopher and researcher of religion. He graduated in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä. Since 1973, he has worked as a scientific and didactic employee at that university. In 1994, he obtained the title of a professor in humanistic sciences. He specialises in contemporary French philosophy and in philosophy of religion.

Inhalt

The multitude of grasps of the Enlightenment - The Enlightenment's revision of Cartesianism - Naturalism of the Enlightenment - Rationalism of the Enlightenment - Religious Enlightenment - Voltairean radicalism - The French Declarations of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - The opponents of revolutionary radicalism