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four big ideas and how they made the modern world
Examines Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress, and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies and politics.
Ideas as historical forces -- Adam Smith : the science of man, morality, and money -- Karl Marx : the tragic consequences of a brilliant theory -- Charles Darwin : struggle and selection in the realm of ideas -- Making democracy : the Jefferson-Hamilton debates -- Counter-enlightenment : from antimodernism to fascism -- Christian fundamentalism : the politics of God in America -- Purifying Islam : the Muslim reaction against the Western enlightenment -- The power of ideas and the importance of the humanities.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-471) and index.