The Enlightenment that Failed - Israel, Jonathan I. (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole came to be almost defeated by ideas buttressing the interests of the privileged few.