The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment can be seen to have lasted from the late sixteenth century to the present day.

Martin L. Davies is Emeritus Reader at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, also published by Routledge.

Introduction: the Enlightenment: a reconception of its fate and value

1. The Enlightenment and the fate of meaning

2. The Enlightenment and the fate of history

3. The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge