"Ideas do not have force outside specific social contexts. The same ideas may have enormous force in one context and look bizarre or repulsive in another."
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Historians from the United StatesYale University facultyPrinceton University alumniJohns Hopkins University facultyHarvard University
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"For a New Social History of the Enlightenment: Authors, Readers, and Commercial Capitalism", Cambridge University Press (31 March 2022)
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