Kieron O’Hara is a Senior Researcher at Southampton University. He is the author of The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know It (Oneworld), Trust: From Socrates to Spin, and After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition. Deidre Rubenstein is regarded as one of Australia's most accomplished actresses. As a stage actress, she has starred in productions with all major Australian theatre companies and has created three highly acclaimed one-woman shows which have toured Australia and overseas. Deidre won an Australian Film Industry (AFI) award for Best Actress in the mini-series Palace of Dreams and is also a multi-award-winning narrator. Audiobooks narrated for Bolinda include Elizabeth Costello by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, Gilgamesh by Joan London, Elizabeth Harrower novels and various ABC titles.
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 It 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 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