Critics and the Enlightenment

Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition.

The New Study by Darrin McMahon

In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon—what we have come to think of as the "Right."

The Counter-Enlightenment

McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.