Double Doctrine
Colin Kidd: The Enlightenment, 5 December 2013
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters
by Anthony Pagden.
Oxford, 436 pp., £20, May 2013,978 0 19 966093 3 Show More
by Anthony Pagden.
Oxford, 436 pp., £20, May 2013,
“... In the course of 15 years teaching history at the University of Glasgow, with between a hundred and fifty and two hundred students in my classes, I inevitably received a few complaints. Some have stuck in the memory. ‘He made us read a whole book by Hume.’ Or the student in a class on 19th-century intellectual history who grumbled about having to read books from the anthropology and biology sections of the library; surely that wasn’t part of a history degree? A tiny minority of students found fault with revisionist analysis which punctured reassuring prejudices, not least where contextualisation seemed to verge on extenuation ... ”