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The Rise & Fall of the Enlightenment
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory treats the Enlightenment as a coalition victory, not an idea breakthrough, and its decline as a coalition failure, not an intellectual refutation. Why the Enlightenment rose. Early modern Europe had a fractured elite. Church, crown, aristocracy, … Continue reading
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