![]() Nonetheless, in all three of these accounts, we find the notion of the Enlightenment as a modern rupture in ways of life and, especially, in thought. 1 Significantly, however, Hazard and Cassirer did not use the term ‘modernity,’ while Gay would title the third book of his two-volume study ‘The Pursuit of Modernity.’ 2 This reveals the importance of the 1950s and 1960s as a period when modernization theory, which incorporated the concept of modernity, would come to dominate the social sciences in the United States and elsewhere. ![]() Such a narrative – of a politically and morally progressive Enlightenment that lay at the foundation of modern democracy and science – came to dominate the field from the revival of Enlightenment studies in the era of mass politics towards the end of the nineteenth century and would continue in the classic studies of Paul Hazard, Ernst Cassirer and Peter Gay. * But this alliance is less self-evident than the narrative of an emancipatory Enlightenment holds. ![]() Keywords: enlightenment modernity modernization EurocentrismĮnlightenment and modernity are often conjoined. ![]()
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