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The End of Enlightenment
- Empire, Commerce, Crisis
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian
The End of Enlightenment offers a radical re-evaluation of one of the most important moments in human history. Tracing around the world the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists, historian Richard Whatmore argues that, for figures as diverse as David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, the Enlightenment was a profound failure. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, fanaticism with toleration, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent empire.
Returning us to the tumultuous events and ideas of the eighteenth century, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, The End of Enlightenment is a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured.
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- Mr R W Lawrence
- 25-01-24
one of the very few audio books I couldn't finish...
...owing to the quality of the 'performance'. Where to start with this - first, the narration is melon-twistingly slow, with long....pauses....between.....words, as if the reader was cautiously attempting the recording in a single take. Or maybe he just had a big lunch and forgot his gaviscon. Then there is the inexplicable insertion of non-existent punctuation which breaks up the flow of the text. Chuck in some risible accents, which pompously and bizarrely effect voices from the 18th century, and I could suffer no more after a couple of hours.
Sympathies to the author who must be feeling badly let down by his publisher.
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- Jacob Ainscough
- 19-04-24
please re-record
Every audiobook has someone complaining about the narration in the reviews. I've learnt to largely ignore these. Listening at 1.5 or 1.7 speed tends to make them all manageable. But this one is different. Whatever speed I try and play it, the narration is so poor it's almost impossible to not be distracted by it. Real shame. Really interesting book.
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