Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. (Book Reviews).

The Australian Journal of Politics and History | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. By Roy Porter. (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000), pp.xxiv + 728. Illustrated. Forty-six colour plates. $60.

In 1784 Kant responded to the question, "What is Enlightenment?". Yet earlier, Montesquieu wrote from England saying that "I am here in a country which hardly resembles the rest of Europe. This nation is passionately fond of liberty [...] every individual is independent." (p.24) The English had, in Kant's terms, already "dared to know" -- an injunction that appeared on the masthead of ...

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