启蒙时代（上）: 现代异教精神的兴起

This book is authored by Peter Gay. There were a lot of enlightenment philosophers in the 18th century, but only one Enlightenment Movement. From Edinburgh to Naples, from Paris to Berlin, and from Boston to Philadelphia, cultural critics, religious skeptics and political reformers constituted an informal alliance. Diderots drama, Voltaires novel, Humes epistemology, Lessings debate, and Kants criticism -- they all center on a core content -- people are liberated from a self-imposed immature state, dare to know, and dare to find. Enlightenment philosophers common pursuit of this creed brought about a collective rebellion to break the ideological bondage, and a major event in the history of the spiritual civilization of human beings.