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Dark Brilliance
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
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Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory, and economics. However, all this was achieved...
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Dark Brilliance
A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.
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Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory, and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme turbulence in the form of internal conflicts and international wars. While the 'land of liberty' was beginning to import slaves from Africa.
Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.
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ISBN: 9781838958565
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Edition: Export/Airside
Illustration: 2x8pp colour plates
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 400
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About the Author
Paul Strathern studied philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He is a Somerset Maugham Award-winning novelist; author of two series of books - Philosophers in 90 Minutes and The Big Idea: Scientists who Changed the World; and several works of non-fiction, including The Borgias, The Florentines and The Other Renaissance.
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