"This is an engaging and highly readable introduction to one of the most important intellectual developments in the history of western culture."
– Matthew Humphrey - Reader in Political Philosophy, University of Nottingham
"O'Hara provides readers with an introduction to the Enlightenment that is thorough without ever being forbidding and shows a keen appreciation of the dilemmas and controversies that surround the enlightened inheritance."
– Dan Hind - author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim
"Lively and erudite. This is an excellent and, for its length remarkably comprehensive, starting place for approaching the Enlightenment."
– Penny Fielding - Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh
