In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his
recently published book Europe against Revolution - Conservatism,
Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past (OUP, 2023). In this book,
Matthijs explores what counter-revolutionary thinkers in the decades around
1800 thought about Europe. Many of his conclusions are surprising, with
critics of the French Revolution often being proponents of cultural and
religious diversity, cosmopolitanism and political moderation that they
viewed as unique to Europe. They believed themselves to be the true heirs
of the European Enlightenment, rather than the radical materialist atheists
who had taken over France.
Europe Against Revolution | New Work In Intellectual History podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
