Have We Ever Been Modern?

cato-unbound.org - 29 days ago

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In his reply, UCLA historian Anthony Pagden doubts that the historical discontinuity created by the onset of modernity is "sudden or as all-pervasive" as Stephen Davies makes it out to be. Pagden points both to much earlier and more recent changes that seem at least as dramatic as the changes ...

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Hit & Run — ... from Jack Goldstone, one of the scholars whose work Davies drew on and revised, and some more scathing criticisms from Anthony Pagden, who doubts many of Davies' premises. Jason Kuznicki will weigh in with another response to Davies next week, and then Davies will answer his critics. Watch it all unfold ...