# The Party of Humanity

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- Book: [The Party of Humanity](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gay/the-party-of-humanity) ([The Party of Humanity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gay/the-party-of-humanity.md))
- Authors: [Peter Gay](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-gay)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0783-143-9
- Published: 2013-05-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious...