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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"[A] lively and engaging book. . . . [
The Secular Enlightenment] is a refreshingly straightforward defence and even celebration of the Enlightenment and its secular values."
---Helena Rosenblatt, Literary Review"The book is an engaging and highly readable
tour de force which deserves the widest circulation."
---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"Jacob is a titan in the modern historiography of the Enlightenment and . . . [
The Secular Enlightenment] is simultaneously the culmination of half a century of pioneering research, a measured introduction to the subject for first-time readers, and a pugnacious call to arms."
---Sophus A. Reinert, Journal of Modern History"[A] deeply researched and highly readable book."
---Michael Levin, European Legacy"In
The Secular Enlightenment, Margaret C. Jacob offers a social history of the intellectual movement in the long 18th century that valued the pursuit of knowledge through rigorous reason and scientific evidence. Focusing on cities and ideas from throughout Europe during this time, [Jacob] masterfully blends panoramic scope with vivid detail."
---David Greder, Reading Religion
