{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-a-very-short-introduction-roy-porter","title":"The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction — Roy Porter","description":"\u003cp\u003ePorter compresses the Enlightenment into a tight account that is attentive to both its internal diversity and its lasting consequences. He resists the tendency to reduce it to a single narrative — reason versus religion, progress versus tradition — and presents instead a movement of considerable heterogeneity, in which common assumptions about improvement and evidence were applied to very different ends. An ideal entry point to a subject whose influence on the modern world is difficult to overstate, and whose internal contradictions remain unresolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003ePart of Oxford University Press's celebrated \u003cem\u003eVery Short Introductions\u003c\/em\u003e series. Roy Porter was one of the foremost historians of the Enlightenment in Britain; this was among his final works before his death in 2002. 'Porter at his most lucid and illuminating.' — \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529335623,"sku":null,"price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_9a2d35b2-ee3c-4adc-9472-6eceb273f22c.jpg?v=1776629271","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-enlightenment-a-very-short-introduction-roy-porter","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}