Critics of the Enlightenment

A new generation of philosophers emerged from the ashes of the French Revolution: critics of the Enlightenment and the principles and practices to which it gave birth. François-René de Chateaubriand, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Frédéric Le Play, Émile Keller, and René de La Tour du Pin are among the six prominent figures of the French counter-revolutionary tradition picked by Christopher O. Blum to exemplify this movement.

The second edition of Critics of the Enlightenment serves as a marvellous overview of a much-ignored movement in Western history—a movement whose bold and principled enterprise is as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—with the same elegant translations featured in its first edition, now newly revised and introduced.