Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, revolution and counter-revolution; a eurosceptical enquiry

Abstract

As part of a programme of disintegrating and re-assembling the concept or concepts of �Europe�, there is offered (1) a revision of Franco Venturi's exceptionalist account of England's place in Enlightenment, (2) an alternative to Isaiah Berlin's account of the movement through Enlightenment to historicism. The objective is to enhance the British and English role in European intellectual history, while showing that we must rewrite the concept of �Europe� in order to do so. There persists the �Eurosceptical enquiry� whether �Europe� is interested in history at all.

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