Walter Donway’s *How Philosophers Change Civilizations: The Age of Enlightenment*

Walter Donway’s How Philosophers Change Civilizations: The Age of Enlightenment is a good survey of the major thinkers who contributed to the development of the Enlightenment — along with some important coverage of their Counter-Enlightenment detractors — as well as an argument about what causes historical change. Here’s his question: ‘How did the “new philosophers” […]