The Shape of the New

“Offers an impressively learned and evenhanded treatment of the Enlightenment’s key ideas and the reactions to them over the past two centuries.” ―Zoltan Barany, author of  The Soldier and the Changing State One of the New York Times ’s 100 Notable Books of 2015 One of Bloomberg Businessweek ’s Best Books of 2015 This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and