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The story of how the modern, Western view of the world was bornA fascinating panorama of Enlightenment thought, taking the reader from the drawing rooms of eighteenth-century Paris to the islands of the South PacificShows how - and why - the universal, cosmopolitan ideal became such a central part of the Western cultural and political imaginationPersuasively argues that Enlightenment principles matter now as much as ever before
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The story of how the modern, Western view of the world was bornA fascinating panorama of Enlightenment thought, taking the reader from the drawing rooms of eighteenth-century Paris to the islands of the South PacificShows how - and why - the universal, cosmopolitan ideal became such a central part of the Western cultural and political imaginationPersuasively argues that Enlightenment principles matter now as much as ever before
