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　　In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most

distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant

revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the

Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about

human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who

have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given

preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent

movements in England and America.Contrasting the Enlightenments in

the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom

of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David

Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring

contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments,

she argues, that created a social ethic–humane, compassionate, and

realistic–that still resonates strongly today, in America perhaps

even more than in Europe.The Roads to Modernity is a

remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of

ideas.

Preface

Prologue

The British Enlightenment: The Sociology of Virtue

1. “Social Affections” and Religious Dispositions

2. Political Economy and Moral Sentiments

3. Edmund Burke’s Enlightenment

4. Radical Dissenters

5. Methodism: “A Social Religion”

6. “The Age of Benevolence”

The French Enlightenment: The Ideology of Reason

The American Enlightenment: The Politics of Liberty

Epilogue

Notes

Index

　　Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for twenty-three years at Brooklyn

College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York,

where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978. Now

Professor Emeritus, she lives with her husband, Irving Kristol, in

Washington, D.C. Her previous books include The De-Moralization of

Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values; On Looking into

the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society; Poverty and

Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians; The New

History and the Old; Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians; The

Idea of Poverty: England in

the Early Industrial Age; On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of

John Stuart Mill; Victorian Minds (nominated for a National Book

Award); Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution; and Lord Acton: A

Study in Conscience and Politics.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　“Support[ed] with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship.

. . . Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking

intellectual history of the 18th century.” –San Francisco

Chronicle

　　“Exciting intellectual pugilism ? Himmelfarb mounts a vigorous

argument that the British [Enlightenment] was reformist rather than

subversive, respectful of the past and present even while looking

forward to a more egalitarian future.” –The New York Times Book

Review

　　“[Himmelfarb’s] writing . . . has a verve and sharpness. . . . It

is a pleasure to read.” –The New York Review of Books

　　“Exceptionally well written and clever.”–The Washington Post Book

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　　“Himmelfarb has one of the keenest intellects of our time.” –The

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书籍介绍

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America.Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic–humane, compassionate, and realistic–that still resonates strongly today, in America perhaps even more than in Europe. The Roads to Modernity is a remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of ideas.