Lights On and Away We Go
Keith Thomas: Happy Thoughts, 20 May 2021
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
by Ritchie Robertson.
Allen Lane, 984 pp., £40, November 2020,978 0 241 00482 1 Show More
by Ritchie Robertson.
Allen Lane, 984 pp., £40, November 2020,
“... has to take in two of the most fiercely independent intellectuals of the 17th century, Hobbes and Spinoza, both of whom challenged accepted verities. Spinoza was ostracised by the Jewish community in Amsterdam for his supposed atheism; Hobbes was denounced in England and beyond for his unrelenting ... ”