Commentators beginning in the mid 20th century have used the term Counter-Enlightenment to describe strains of thought that arose in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in opposition to the 18th-century Enlightenment. You do not have access to this The revolt against reason, against natural rights, against the autonomy of the individual showed up in Burke’s long campaign and fixed the broad lines of this course of action for at least a century and a half. In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Inbunden, 2009. "Few scholars comprehend the nexus between Counter-Enlightenment discourse and fascist ideology as well as Zeev Sternhell. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with… In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Now, it is true that if the Anti-Enlightenment is to be called a tradition at all, some similarity and conceptual contiguity amongst the various thinkers that compose it must be expected, especially since, as Sternhell correctly points out in his introduction, ‘writers after Burke and Herder read each other very attentively’ (p. 29). The antirationalist form of modernity, as we have seen throughout this book, stressed all that divides and isolates people, all that is specific to them and unique about them, and opposed all that could unite them. This second modernity also marked the birth of nationalist ideology, and the true founding father of this ideology was Herder. This revolt, which lasted for roughly two centuries, was directed above all against the French, or more precisely the Franco-Kantian, Enlightenment but also took aim at the British Enlightenment from John Locke to David Hume. Anti-Enlightenment Tradition represents a landmark and transformative contribution to the political history of ideas. Zeev Sternhell; Translated by David Maisel. Exploring the development of anti-Enlightenment thought from the eighteenth century to the present, elements of Sternhell's argument are largely convincing, although, as will be examined in a … David Maisel. "—Richard Wolin, author of The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism — Richard Wolin "Zeev Sternhell is one of the most original scholars dealing with the historical roots of fascism and the European Right. 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