The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E3: Enter 18th-century salons and cafés to join the debates over modernity and politics. While writers such as Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau argued over natural rights, political reform, the social contract, and more, the Old Regime cracked down on dissidents and threw writers in jail for criticizing the government.