This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common.
William R. Everdell is an American teacher and author. His three prior books have also been on the history of ideas. He has written articles on French historical studies and History of European Ideas, and is the author of numerous reviews in journals including Studies in the Novel and the New York Times Book Review.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment I.- Chapter 3: Christian Antecedents.- Chapter 4: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment II.- Chapter 5: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment III.- Chapter 6: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment IV.- Chapter 7: Jewish Antecedents and the Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment V.- Chapter 8: Muslim Antecedents.- Chapter 9: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment VI.- Chapter 10: Conclusion, Ecstasy and the decay of Ecstasy.
“The book is faultlessly well organized.” (J. E. May, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, Vol. 35 (2), October, 2021)
