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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World by Scott L. Montgomery Details

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas of the Age of Enlightenment revolted around freedom, equality, development and democracy in modern history and shaped the world as…

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This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas of the Age of Enlightenment revolted around freedom, equality, development and democracy in modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testimony to the permanent power of ideas, The Shape of the New presents memorable images of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx - the heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied his highest ideals about progress - and how their ideas were transformed over time into the hands of their followers Their opponents, the nature of our beliefs, our institutions, our economies and our policies.

However, these ideas also carry contradictions. It has been used in the service of brutal regimes such as slavery and colonialism, and has been seized and manipulated by monsters such as Stalin and Hitler, and has provoked reactions against the heritage of enlightenment by Islamist Salafists and Christian religious rights.

The new paradigm argues that it is impossible to understand the ideological and political conflicts of our time without knowing the history and internal tensions of these globally changing ideas. With passion and conviction, urges us to recognize the centrality of these ideas as historical forces and pillars of Western human traditions. It makes the case that reading the works of the great thinkers is to get valuable ideas about the ideas that formed how we think and what we think..



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