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The Enlightenment

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Narrator Deidre Rubenstein

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Length 9 hours 46 minutes
Language English
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The Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive, being blamed for bloody disasters – Auschwitz, the gulags, Islamic terrorism – as well as being heralded as the harbinger of reason and equality. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (or whether it still is).

Kieron O’Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, ideology, culture, and social life of the Enlightenment – not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke.

Kieron O’Hara is a Senior Researcher at Southampton University. He is the author of The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know It (Oneworld), Trust: From Socrates to Spin, and After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition.

Deidre Rubenstein is regarded as one of Australia's most accomplished actresses. As a stage actress, she has starred in productions with all major Australian theatre companies and has created three highly acclaimed one-woman shows which have toured Australia and overseas. Deidre won an Australian Film Industry (AFI) award for Best Actress in the mini-series Palace of Dreams and is also a multi-award-winning narrator. Audiobooks narrated for Bolinda include Elizabeth Costello by Nobel Prize–winning author J.M. Coetzee, Gilgamesh by Joan London, Elizabeth Harrower novels and various ABC titles.

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Author:

Narrator:
Deidre Rubenstein

ISBN:
9781743118078

Length:
9 hours 46 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Unabridged

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“O'Hara provides readers with an introduction to the Enlightenment that is thorough without ever being forbidding and shows a keen appreciation of the dilemmas and controversies that surround the enlightened inheritance.” “This is an engaging and highly readable introduction to one of the most important intellectual developments in the history of Western culture.” “Lively and erudite. This is an excellent, and for its length remarkably comprehensive, starting place for approaching the Enlightenment.” Expand reviews
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