Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.

ROBERT E. KENNEDY Emmet Kennedy is professor of European history at the George Washington University, USA, and author of several books including A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology" (American Philosophical Society 1978) and A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale U.P., 1989).