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Title: The Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End

Author: Hourly History

Narrator: John Riddle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-17

Publisher: Hourly History

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Age of Enlightenment From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about - The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment - Engaging With Religion - Morality in the Age of Enlightenment - Society in the Age of Enlightenment - Science and Political Economy - The Enlightenment and the Public - Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.

©2016 Hourly History (P)2017 Hourly History

Members Reviews:

Great Read

Great read, I have read several of these 1 hour history books.

Quick introductions to compelling subjects

Before sharing my thoughts on the merits of this little volume on the Enlightenment, I think it would be helpful to look more closely at the purpose of producing a series of "quick-read" treatments of important cultural and historical topics. There does seem to be an audience for brief but well-researched and engagingly argued treatments of such issues (witness the ever expanding "Very Short Introductions" published by Oxford University Press and Penguin's "Lives" series of short biographies. In both cases the subjects seem to have been assigned to specific authors both because the author is an authority on the subject (whether universally recognized as such or not) and because the assigned author promises to give an original or controversial take on the subject. In any case, for most readers with any interest and familiarity with the subjects and the authors chosen to write about them, they can pretty much assess for themselves where any ideological biases are likely to lie. This is not the case for anonymously written treatments such as the ones offered by Hourly Histories. To be fair, this is not to say the Hourly Histories are secretly advancing a specific agenda of any kind; it just means some readers may find themselves wondering how complete and balanced the coverage of a topic is. One could also compare the Hourly Histories series to Wikipedia treatments of comparable subjects. Although written anonymously, the Wikipedia articles are refined collaboratively and presumably more "accurate," "comprehensive," and "definitive" the longer they stay posted. Unfortunately, the collaborative nature of Wikipedia's process sometimes results in a flat, gray flannel prose style, and loss of focus as unnecessary information is added to otherwise perfectly suitable topic overviews.

The Hourly Histories volume "The Age of Enlightenment" does not share Wikipedia's shortcomings. The prose is simple and clear, but not flat and the overall length is kept under control by the author/publisher. The book does not document its sources beyond what is said in the running text itself.